# About

The Skittr example code demonstrates how to use Scala Actors to create a system that supports highly a scalable social messaging system. The core logic and messaging code in Skittr is about 200 lines of code and has been tested with 1,000,000 Actors sending a message on average every 5 minutes on an Intel Core 2 Duo machine using MySQL as backing store. The machine was consuming < 25% CPU.

Skittr is example code that is part of the lift web framework.