AOP-style Mixin Composition Stacks in Scala
Scala is one those great languages that is scalable. With scalable I mean that it is the language that grows with the user, that it makes simple things easy and hard things possible. A language that is easy to get started and to become productive in, but at the same time a deep language with very powerful constructs and abstractions.
In this blog post I will try to highlight the power of Scala’s mixins
Clustering Scala Actors with Terracotta
Introduction
A month ago I wrote an introductory post about Scala Actors: HotSwap Code using Scala and Actors. For you who don’t know what it is I don’t want to start by reading the previous post let’s briefly recap what Actors are and what you can use them for.
An Actor is an abstraction that implements Message-Passing Concurrency. Actors have no shared state and are communicating by sending and receiving messages. This is a