Reactive Summit 2022

The next generation of connected, electric, and autonomous vehicles are driving the automotive industry to adopt digital twin technology and reactive architectures at significant speed and scale. This is happening in broad and challenging contexts such as automotive assembly, the software-defined vehicle, active safety and autonomous driving systems, and even motorsports racing and spans embedded, edge, cloud, and enterprise environments. Actor systems and reactive streams now enable device-level diagnostics and prognostics, machine learning, simulation and training, activity-based and crowd-sourced intelligence, and so much more. Doug's talk will discuss the domain-driven design of digital twins in several of these scenarios, investigate some of the reactive streams integrations that inform their behavior and state, and then conclude by providing some perspective on the opportunities, obstacles, and possible outcomes of this exciting journey.

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.