In The Brain of Philipp Haller: Correctly and Efficiently Combining Concurrency Abstractions December 12, 2012

Actors have become a commonly used abstraction for concurrent and parallel programming in Scala. However, many real-world systems and applications combine actors with other concurrency abstractions, such as futures, or threads and shared-memory synchronization constructs.

This talk explores pitfalls of typical combinations and provides some advice on ensuring their correctness and efficiency.

Official Website: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/correctly-and-efficiently-combining-concurrency-abstractions/mh-5975