How to implement fast and cost-effective backend for a multiplayer game using Scala, Akka and GraalVM

Actor systems are perfect match for multiplayer game backends - Akka actors translate very well into in-game entities, and AWS Lambda is a convenient way to deploy them without much of DevOps hassle. In this talk I will present how to implement fast and cost-effective backend for a multiplayer game using Scala, Akka and GraalVM.
Let's go through some libraries from ZIO ecosystem that will allow us to implement API layer with ZIO HTTP
A sneak-peek of the "FEDA: Powered by Scala 3" book.
We all have pretty little things laying around in our codebases, yet, we seldom give them the same love