Explore microservices implementation using Scala and Akka in this 51-minute conference talk from Scala Days Berlin 2016. Delve into the practical aspects of microservices for enterprise applications, focusing on determining appropriate service boundaries and ensuring effective communication in distributed environments. Learn how to adhere to reactive software principles, making your microservices responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven. Gain insights into crafting microservices that accurately model business domains, with demonstrations of advanced Akka usage throughout. Examine topics such as bounded contexts, ubiquitous language, microservice databases, query models, asynchronous services, event publishing, and resilient architectures. Witness practical code examples for service start-up, actor aggregates, and topic feeders, equipping you with the knowledge to implement scalable and efficient microservices in your own projects.