"As it turns out, Actors solve a lot of the problems that, in the .NET solution, you have to do manually. The whole process of collision is a big issue in event sourcing if you're not using an Actor-based model. Our traditional understanding of event sourcing overlaid with the Actor …

"Paul and Alex were reluctant but Paul gave Scala a shot. His first time writing Scala was building out the first pass of a new analytics service. In one sitting, he went from no prior Scala experience to an analytics service that worked correctly the first time it compiled."