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October 25, 2022
Detroit, Michigan
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Tuesday, October 25 • 3:40pm - 4:10pm
Building Sports Betting Systems with Akka - Trevor Burton-McCreadie, Lunatech

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The world of sports betting is a David and Goliath battle between the price setters and the price takers, with both sides looking to make a profit. Setting the prices are the Bookmakers - organisations with hundreds, sometimes thousands of employees. They must constantly tune those prices to balance profit against risk whilst shouldering a constantly-evolving regulatory burden. On the other side there’s a wide spectrum of people taking those prices: at one end there are those who place a bet to support their favourite team, whatever the expected outcome at the other a tiny minority who make a living by exploiting every mistake, mis-step or late move the Bookmakers make. This is a domain where the Reactive principles are vital to success: * Responsiveness - Systems must identify and act on opportunities that may only be available for seconds or less * Resilience - A single failure can wipe out several days' worth of profit * Elasticity - The number of markets varies considerably over time In this session I’ll present real-world use-cases that demonstrate how Akka has been used on both sides of this battle.
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Trevor

Software Engineer, Lunatech Labs
After a failed bid at rock stardom Trevor eventually found a way to get paid for writing software with Macromedia Flash. After twenty years and dabbling with Python, Ruby, Objective-C and C# he now works almost exclusively on the JVM. Trevor has spoken at several Flash conferences... Read More →

Tuesday October 25, 2022 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
140 DE (Level 1)
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