The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Building reactive applications.

Discussion points:

The benefits to developers that came out of the introduction of lambdas and streams in Java 8
How Akka’s actor model helps in the creation of reactive and asynchronous applications
Comparing the uses of RxJava versus the Java 8 streams API to develop reactive code
Warburton’s and Urma’s ideas for preparing the next generation of developers for the requirements of industry, the focus of their forthcoming book Real World Software Development

Other links:

The Learning Path Build Reactive Applications with RxJava, presented by Warburton and Urma
The Learning Path Build Reactive Applications with Akka, presented by Warburton and Urma
The video Programming Actors with Akka, presented by Warburton and Urma
Warburton has been involved as an organizer in the London Java Community
Urma is co-founder of Cambridge Spark and the Cambridge Coding Academy
The schedule for the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, February 25-28, 2018, in New York