Reactive Summit 2016

Since its stable release earlier this year, Akka Streams is quickly becoming the de facto standard integration layer between various Streaming systems and products.

This comes from the Reactive Streams initiative in part, which has been long led by Lightbend and others, allowing multiple streaming libraries to inter-operate between each other in a performant and resilient fashion, providing back-pressure all the way. But perhaps even more so thanks to the various integration drivers that have sprung up in the community and the Akka team—including drivers for Kafka, Cassandra, Streaming HTTP, Websockets and much more.

In this talk we'll explore what and why Reactive integration for streaming matters, how Akka Streams makes it trivial, and what the future holds in this landscape.