Akka/Apache Pekko Essentials with Scala

Main benefits of Akka or Pekko

• Write massively parallel and distributed applications more quickly
• Add resilience and fault tolerance to your applications without any great fuss
• Write code with an easy mental model you can relate to
• Easily test parallel apps, which are notoriously hard to test

Write parallel code with actors instead of threads and locks

• Write parallel code with actors instead of threads and locks

• Manage actors in hierarchies

• Adopt the “let it crash” philosophy with your applications

• Configure Akka or Pekko for anything

• Test concurrent applications with actors

• Parallelize and delegate tasks to actors

• Use the best practices in working with the actor model

• Plus some extra perks:

  • You’ll have access to the entire code I write on camera (all 2200+ lines of it)
  • You’ll be invited to our private Slack room where I’ll share latest updates, discounts, talks, conferences, and recruitment opportunities
  • You’ll have access to the takeaway slides

Skills you’ll get:

• Work with actors instead of threads
  • Understand the thread model limitations
  • Adopt a new mindset with actors as the fundamental resource
  • Learn how actors are closest to the original object-oriented ideal
  • Send and receive messages
  • Change actor behavior dynamically
  • Spawn child actors and actor hierarchies
  • Learn about system guardians
  • Log messages for easier debugging
  • Learn how to configure an Akka/Pekko application in 5 different ways
• Test Akka applications
  • Use TestKit and assertions
  • Use TestProbes
  • Write timed assertions
  • Intercept actor logs to verify correct functionality
• Achieve fault-tolerance in parallel applications
  • Start and stop actors programmatically and via message passing
  • Manage actor lifecycle
  • Create supervisor strategies to recover from failure
  • Use the Backoff Supervisor pattern to access an external resource that failed
• Deeply understand and use the Akka or Pekko infrastructure
  • Schedule messages
  • Manage timeouts
  • Parallelize and distribute tasks to workers with Routers
  • Use custom dispatchers for underlying thread management
  • Use custom mailboxes to process messages on your own terms
• Learn advanced techniques
  • stash messages for later use
  • use the ask pattern for quick request-response interactions without any fuss
  • use the pipe pattern for integration with external services
  • all with live runnable examples and practiced with exercises.

All with live runnable examples and practiced with exercises.

Plus some extra perks:

• You’ll have access to the entire code I write on camera (1800+ LOC)
• You’ll be invited to our private Slack room where I’ll share latest updates, discounts, talks, conferences, and recruitment opportunities
• You’ll have access to the takeaway slides