Here's a screencast of using Akka in the context of Play. Akka's motto is, "Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors". The screencast shows how to implement a hit counter using STM (software transactional memory). It's acting as a library within the context of a Play application. That surprises me (in a good way) since I was afraid you'd have to run Akka out of process. The screencast shows how STM is able to maintain correct results under a heavy, concurrent load. It looks pretty painless. There's another screencast showing how to do the same thing with actors, and then another that shows how to do the same thing for a cluster of servers using remote actors.
I decided to give Ubuntu 20.04 a try on my 2015 15" MacBook Pro. I didn't actually install it; I just live booted from a USB thumb drive which was enough to try out everything I wanted. In summary, it's not perfect, and issues with my camera would prevent me from switching, but given the right hardware, I think it's a really viable option. The first thing I wanted to try was what would happen if I plugged in a non-HiDPI screen given that my laptop has a HiDPI screen. Without sub-pixel scaling, whatever scale rate I picked for one screen would apply to the other. However, once I turned on sub-pixel scaling, I was able to pick different scale rates for the internal and external displays. That looked ok. I tried plugging in and unplugging multiple times, and it didn't crash. I doubt it'd work with my Thunderbolt display at work, but it worked fine for my HDMI displays at home. I even plugged it into my TV, and it stuck to the 100% scaling I picked for the othe
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