Dear hakkers, during the past weeks many things have happened around Akka and the sheer wealth of activity (confounded by “having to” visit a friend’s wedding on the weekend :-) ) has left me without the time to properly appreciate all the changes and landmarks we have passed.
Many of you may have noticed that Akka.NET <http://getakka.net/> has reached version 1.0 <http://typesafe.com/blog/akkanet-the-reactive-story-continues-on-the-microsoft-clr> there is now a production-ready version of Akka that brings all the Reactive niceness to Microsoft’s CLR, to be used in C#, F#, VB, etc. This effort is offered to the world by the incredible dedication and enthusiasm of Roger and Aaron and their very active developer community, who started with their line-by-line port of the Akka codebase into C# only a bit over a year ago. We at Typesafe are very busy with all the projects that we are doing (with a rather small number of engineers I might add), so we could not actively contribute to the code and we also do not cover Akka.NET in our support offerings, but this leaves room for new companies like Petabridge <http://petabridge.com/> to fill these newly created spaces. Last Wednesday I spontaneously traveled to Mainz for a very nice reason you may have heard about as well: it was my honor and great pleasure on behalf of the whole Akka community to accept the JAX Innovation Award 2015 <http://typesafe.com/blog/akka-wins-2015-jax-award-for-most-innovative-open-technology> This is an incredible achievement, one way to look at it is that Akka thereby stands on par with Java 8, the other winner of the community awards <http://jaxenter.com/jax-awards-2015> (with Netflix OSS having won the Special Jury Award—and very deservedly so!). This award is a true team victory, it requires a lot of players to perform in unison to reach this kind of recognition. Of course most of the Akka source code is written by Typesafe employees, but none of them do it “for the money”. We all are tremendously proud to be working on this project, we are spurred by all of your contributions—small and large, code and blogs and conference talks, all your enthusiasm—Akka lives and thrives on its open-source community, without that it would be naught. I’d like all of you to contemplate this in a moment of silence and be proud of what we have achieved together. Last Thursday then we released Akka 2.3.10 <http://akka.io/news/2015/04/23/akka-2.3.10-released.html> another testament to the community nature of Akka, just take a look at the list of contributors and the reporters of the underlying issues. We have reached a level of maturity and stability that few open-source projects can aspire to, and that is entirely due to your active participation in diagnosing and filing issues, providing and/or verifying fixes and in general just pushing us towards the best possible product we can deliver—to be used by all without charge or restrictions. Sometimes our sales team tells me that this high quality makes it difficult for them to close deals, and that is of course a serious concern since my salary depends on those sales, but it is an extremely nice problem to have and personally I wouldn’t have it any other way. On a personal note all of the significant aspects above have been dwarfed by the very intense sprint towards finally releasing the first release candidate for Streams & HTTP <http://letitcrash.com/post/117271329227/akka-streams-http-1-0-rc1-announcement> last Friday. We have worked towards this goal for the past 1.5 years, an eternity in this business, and without “laser focus” it would have been impossible—I’d go as far as saying that Akka Streams has been the most difficult and taxing sub-project we have ever done, surprisingly more complex than Akka Cluster. We are all very much looking forward to your feedback on this newest addition to the Akka family—which I promise will get a lot more accessible to normal documentation-reading users in the next update as we fill in the gaps in the reference docs <http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-stream-and-http-experimental/1.0-RC1/index.html>. For those others out there who prefer to drink from the spring, you know that the source code is still on the release-2.3-dev branch <https://github.com/akka/akka/tree/release-2.3-dev> on github :-) Happy hakking! Dr. Roland Kuhn Akka Tech Lead Typesafe <http://typesafe.com/> – Reactive apps on the JVM. twitter: @rolandkuhn <http://twitter.com/#!/rolandkuhn> -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
