- Work with actors instead of threads
- Understand thread model limitations and the classic actor model
- Send and receive messages, change actor behavior dynamically
- Create child actors and actor hierarchies
- Configure a classic Akka application in multiple ways
- Test Akka applications with TestKit and TestProbes
- Intercept actor logs to verify correct behavior
- Manage actor lifecycle and supervisor strategies
- Implement the Backoff Supervisor pattern
- Schedule messages and manage timeouts
- Distribute tasks using Routers
- Configure custom dispatchers and mailboxes
- Use the stash, ask pattern, and pipe pattern
- Build actor state machines with a dedicated DSL
Akka Classic Essentials with Scala
Become a Akka Classic developer with our essentials course. Master the fundamentals of Akka Classic with Scalathrough clear lessons, practical exercises, and a smooth learning curve. Ideal for those with some programming experience, this course will quickly equip you with essential skills to enhance your coding toolkit.
- Duration
- 12.5h of 4K content
- Lessons
- 36 lessons
By Daniel Ciocîrlan
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Goal
The classic Akka actors course is still available.
Akka is one of the most powerful toolkits in the Scala ecosystem. Mimicking human interaction with the actor model revolutionized the way we build and think parallel and distributed applications.
Although we have a completely revamped course with the latest Akka Typed version, This course will still be alive on Rock the JVM for as long as people continue to use Akka Classic.
This course is 100% compatible with the latest fully supported Akka Classic (which at the time of writing is 2.9.x) and gives you the same benefits for the Classic API.
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What's Included
Akka Infrastructure
Meet Rock the JVM
Daniel Ciocîrlan
Founder, Rock the JVM
I'm a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM.
I started Rock the JVM out of love for Scala and the technologies it powers. They are amazing tools, and I want to share as much of my experience with them as I can.
I've taught Java, Scala, Kotlin and related technologies such as Cats, ZIO and Spark to 100,000+ students at various levels. I've held live training sessions for companies including Adobe and Apple, taught university students who now work at Google and Facebook, run Hour of Code for 7-year-olds, and taught more than 50,000+ kids to code.
I have a Master's Degree in Computer Science and I wrote my Bachelor and Master thesis on Quantum Computation. Before learning programming, I won medals at international Physics competitions.
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