5 - Jonas Bonér on Akka, Distributed Systems, Open-Source Sustainability and the Backbone of Agentic AI

Jonas Bonér is the founder and CTO of Akka Inc. and creator of the Akka project and the Reactive Manifesto. He's also a Java Champion.

You can find Jonas at http://jonasboner.com

0:00 Intro
2:30 Akka's origin story: 2009 consultancy to open source
9:30 The actor model: message passing, isolation, and fault tolerance
24:10 Supervision hierarchies and location transparency
37:00 Akka modules: Streams, Clustering, and Sharding
51:00 CRDTs, Alpakka, gRPC, and brokerless PubSub
1:03:00 Akka Edge: extending actors to Rust and devices
1:09:30 The Akka platform SDK: from months to days
1:20:30 Event sourcing and CQRS in the Akka SDK
1:27:00 Serverless, bring-your-own-cloud, and self-hosted deploys
1:38:00 BSL license change: survival over ideology
1:46:00 Open-source sustainability and the tragedy of the commons
1:53:00 Agentic AI and the actor model as its backbone
1:58:00 Distributed systems: what engineers still get wrong