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.
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