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.

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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.

Skills You'll Learn

Skills you’ll learn

You’ll get the same structure as the more recent Akka/Pekko Typed course:

Work with actors instead of threads
- Understand thread model limitations
- Learn how actors work
- Send and receive messages
- Change actor behavior
- Create child actors and actor hierarchies
- Configure a classic Akka application in multiple ways
Test Akka applications
- TestKit
- TestProbes
- Intercept actor logs
Achieve fault-tolerance in parallel applications
- Manage actor lifecycle
- Create supervisor strategies
- Learn the Backoff Supervisor pattern
Deeply understand and use infrastructure tools
- Scheduling
- Timeouts
- Routers
- Dispatchers
- Mailboxes
Learn advanced techniques
- the stash for storing messages
- the ask pattern for quick request-response interactions
- the pipe pattern
- actor state machines with a dedicated DSL

with the same as any other course on Rock the JVM:

Full code I write on camera (2000+ LOC)
Exclusive access our private Slack group
Takeaway slides
All updates free
Never expires

Meet Rock the JVM

Daniel Ciocîrlan

I'm a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM.

I'm a software engineer and the founder of Rock the JVM. I started the Rock the JVM project out of love for Scala and the technologies it powers - they are all amazing tools and I want to share as much of my experience with them as I can.

As of February 2024, I've taught Java, Scala, Kotlin and related tech (e.g. Cats, ZIO, Spark) to 100000+ students at various levels and I've held live training sessions for some of the best companies in the industry, including Adobe and Apple. I've also taught university students who now work at Google and Facebook (among others), I've held Hour of Code for 7-year-olds and I've taught more than 35000 kids to code.

I have a Master's Degree in Computer Science and I wrote my Bachelor and Master theses on Quantum Computation. Before starting to learn programming, I won medals at international Physics competitions.

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