"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 …

"The turnaround time on this project was really tremendous. Also because of the simple model with Akka Actors, it was very easy for me to build in intelligence such as 'what has changed on a track?' or 'which cars are on the track now, but weren't there before?"