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A Hands-On Guide to Akka with Scala

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Course Instructor: Scott CosentinoLast updated 01/2023

Course Outcomes

  • How to setup actors and actor systems
  • Futures
  • Creating Child Actors
  • OneForAll & AllForOne Fault Tolerance
  • Message Routing
  • Scheduling

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Description

Welcome to A Hands-On Guide to Akka with Scala. In this course, you will learn the fundamental concepts of Akka through hands-on examples. The goal of this course is to demonstrate the basic ideas of Akka in a way that is easy to follow along with. By the end of this course, you will have experience working with:

  1. Actors
  2. Futures
  3. Routing
  4. Schedules

This course is a great introduction to the basics of Akka and distributed computing. If you are looking to get a great foundation for Akka, you've come to the right place!

Course Structure

16 lectures1h 43m total duration

  Using sbt with Akka (Watch video)
8min
  Creating an actor system (Watch video)
5min
  Sending messages to actors (Watch video)
8min
  Returning from actors with futures (Watch video)
8min
  Changing actor states (Watch video)
7min
  Stopping actors (Watch video)
6min

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Scott Cosentino
Scott is a software developer and teacher
Scott Cosentino
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Scott Cosentino is a software developer and teacher currently working in software engineer. Scott has worked extensively with both low- and high-level languages, working on operating system and enterp...View profile

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