"We wanted to represent everything on our platform as events, which Akka and its Actor Model enabled us to do. These events, in turn, could trigger other processes, which enabled us to build this system much more easily while also giving us auditability of the platform. That’s very important to …

"Our application is not a typical CRUD database application; a lot of what we do is algorithmic, so things that would ordinarily take tons of code in Java are easy to express concisely in Scala. We've come to realize that picking up a framework and understanding the code is actually …