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The Akka/Apache Pekko Bundle

Everything you need to become an expert Akka/Apache Pekko developer. Master Akka/Apache Pekko with Scala and distributed JVM applications through clear lessons, practical exercises, and a smooth learning curve. Ideal for those with some programming experience, this bundle will take you from zero to hero.

Courses included: 7 courses included
Total duration: 62h of 4K content
Total lessons: 166 lessons

By Daniel Ciocîrlan

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Skills You'll Learn

Work with the actor model in projects of any size or complexity
Stream data with high performance using Akka/Pekko Streams
Deploy reactive HTTP servers and clients
Write backends of any complexity, distributed or local
Use actors for messaging, hierarchies, supervision and scheduling
Configure dispatchers, mailboxes, routers and actor lifecycle
Build streaming architectures with the Graph DSL
Control backpressure and manage graph cycles
Create custom stream components and manage materialization
Build low-level and directive-based HTTP services
Handle URL paths, query parameters, headers and payloads
Create WebSockets and implement JWT authorization
Interact with HTTP servers and REST APIs as a client

Goal

Think distributed systems differently.

You know Akka and the actor model - one of the most powerful abstractions of concurrent programming we’ve had, even though it’s not new. Use actors instead of threads and locks, go immortal with event sourcing, reactive with streams, distribute everything with remoting and clustering, build large scale distributed systems like they did all over the place.

This series is for the Scala programmer who needs to work with Akka and needs a clear path to mastering it. Rock the JVM has - to my knowledge, and I’ve searched way past the second page on Google - the only such path in existence.

This bundle contains

300+ live runnable examples
150+ exercises with solutions
10000+ lines of code written from scratch, more than most engineers push in a year
(I have exactly 10423 lines on camera, which I’ll share with you 100%)
Access to a growing private community on Slack
~50 hours of HD content (soon downloadable)
(Soon) takeaway slides
All updates and additional material for free, for life

”Show me the path.”

If you came here thinking, “I want to learn Akka, just show me a step-by-step way to do it, and I’ll follow”, this is it. There’s little else for me to say. More than 4000 people have taken this journey and they speak:

I’ve heard guys working years with scala saying that the Akka Streams library is so complex that only the lightbend folks that write it can use it. I’ve given it a try in the past, but after going beyond basic sources, sinks and flow i was like WTF!!. Daniel once again nails it, explains so nicely every single details, and spreads some light into such a hard topic. This course is so advanced that you will probably have to go through it 2 or more times, but after you do, daniel presents everything so nicely that you will definitely be a master of Akka Streams. Honestly Daniel is like my Scala Guru. (Giannis P. on Akka Streams, Feb. 2019)

The course is awesome!! As expected of course from Daniel, a great teacher going in depth for all concepts and explaining the WHYs and not just the HOWs. Currently on my journey to become a true master of the Akka world, can’t wait to continue with the rest of the series. Thanks for helping us rock Daniel!! (Kyriakos T. on the Akka series, Jan. 2020)

There are >1000 reviews like that, and that’s on Udemy. The version you’re looking at is even better and with exclusive new material.

This path is literally what you need to follow to be good at Akka, and it’s the only series on the web of this scale and complexity.

What Our Students Say

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My team is expanding the use of Akka in our products so I needed a quick introduction on this topic. I have tried a couple of courses but the introduction to Akka was always too abrupt, too hard to comprehend. I blamed Akka for this as being too hard to explain. This was until I was exposed to the Rock The JVM courses which were an absolute delight when it comes to presenting such complex topics in such an easy to understand way. And Daniel has not stopped at Akka but has added to his portfolio amazing courses on Scala and Spark too. It seems like he is quite enjoying taking such challenges like complex technologies and making them so simple for everyone. I have instantly recommended Daniel’s work to my team, which helped them immensely with taking their skills to a new level, and I do recommend these courses to anyone who wants to have the fastest ramp-up in these tough but popular technologies.

Mihai Fecioru
Adobe · California
From Scala, to Akka, to Spark, Daniel delivers exceptional material in each and every one of these technologies. I’ve been using them for a long time and there is always something new I will discover from him. The level of detail he gets into as well as the way he delivers material is mindblowing. I personally find his latest course Spark Optimization pure gold and one of a kind. I’ve been using Spark for a year now and I haven’t even thought how much you can leverage query plans to make such optimizations. I can’t stop thinking every time, how he manages to go so deep - because using a technology is one thing, but knowing its internals so well and how everything works behind the scenes is another story when it comes to distributed systems. Long story short Daniel is definitely the best instructor I’ve come across and each one of his courses is the best resource you can find online. Kudos for all your work and knowledge sharing.

Giannis Polyzos
Ververica · Greece
Daniel’s courses on Scala and Big Data are the best in class. I’ve been in touch with Daniel’s teaching and courses since early 2018. The first course that I took from him was Scala & Functional Programming; I was skeptical about it because over the internet there are many courses you can find, but few really worthy. I remember the very first day when Daniel started to speak and shared his examples - I started to love Scala, and then more as we went on. I am with Scala for the last 5 years now, but never ever has anyone explained to me or gave me comparable resources to Rock the JVM. Daniel gave me a shift in life and helped me crack top tech company interviews. His courses on big data are a must for any aspiring big data developer or data enthusiast. I highly recommend Daniel as an educator both online and on campus.

Anirban Goswami
Apple · California

Included Courses

Akka/Apache Pekko Essentials with Scala

Say goodbye to threads, locks, and headaches: meet the Actor Model and discover a smarter approach to concurrent and distributed coding — classic actors also available
Akka/Apache Pekko Streams with Scala

Harness the power of reactive streams using Akka/Apache Pekko Streams with Scala: learn to implement scalable, data-rich systems efficiently, writing in a few lines what takes others thousands to achieve
Akka/Apache Pekko HTTP with Scala

Build microservices in minutes using Akka/Apache Pekko HTTP with Scala: Develop stream-based REST APIs, backends, and microservices with ease, sending and receiving JSON effortlessly using a powerful server DSL
Akka Classic Essentials with Scala

Become a Akka Classic developer by mastering the essentials of Akka Classic with Scala using our comprehensive, hands-on course
Akka Classic Persistence with Scala

Embrace a new approach to persistence and storage with Akka Persistence and Scala, a solution that perfectly complements the Actor Model
Akka Classic Remoting & Clustering with Scala

Unlock the power of large-scale, reactive distributed systems with Akka Classic Remoting & Clustering with Scala, and experience unparalleled scalability and resilience in your applications
Akka Classic Serialization with Scala

Don't waste months on ineffective Java serialization: boost your Akka system's performance with Akka Classic Serialization with Scala using Avro, Kryo, or Protobuf

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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