Talks

The actor model gives you safety and scale, but operations across multiple actors turn into painful protocols. Behaviour-Oriented Concurrency keeps the strengths and replaces the protocols with a single keyword.

Most engineers think GC is slow. They’re wrong. Coordination is slow. Pony’s per-actor heaps and message-passing model eliminate the coordination that makes traditional garbage collectors a performance problem.

A Papers We Love talk on how Pony uses deny capabilities to give you data-race freedom and fearless concurrency.

How our favorite single-machine data-access patterns are just as unsafe when we scale them out to distributed systems.

Hard-won lessons about using Cgo in performance-sensitive code, from building the Go API for Wallaroo.

Why we chose Pony to build Wallaroo, what made it work, and where its immaturity bit us.

Applying Pat Helland’s ideas from ‘Life Beyond Distributed Transactions’ to build stateful applications that scale almost infinitely.

Write your Python code without thinking about scale, then run it on a platform that handles scaling for you.

How we combined fault injection, message tracing, and auditing to build trust in a distributed stream processor.