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Actors using Scala & Akka — Part 1 : Introduction

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Since I am stuck at home due to Covid-19 pandemic. With nothing else to do, I thought the best use of time would be to continue my blog series about actors. In the last article, we saw what are actors, their properties and how these properties can be useful for writing concurrent and stateful applications. It was all theory. In this article, I will demonstrate how to write your first akka actor in scala using IntelliJ IDE. Hop on even if you don’t know scala.

Protect yourself from Git identity theft

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Git supports signing commits with a private key and GitHub (& many other git servers) supports verifying those commits with a public key.

Signed and verified commits are marked as “Verified” by GitHub. This provides a level of verification for the commit.