Sparked by the recent work on an Akka article on wikipedia, Jonas, Viktor and Yours Truly sat down to think back to the early days and how it all came about (I was merely an intrigued listener for the most part). While work on the article is ongoing, we thought it would be instructive to share a list of references to papers, talks and concepts which influenced the design—made Akka what it is today and what still is to come.

We hope you’ll have as much fun perusing those sources as we had weaving them into our coding. If you have trouble with the embedded version, please check the doc on Google.