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Introduction to Akka Actors with Java 8

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Overview

This course teaches learners the basics of writing actors with Akka in Java 8, including understanding actors and core concepts, writing actors, configuring the Actors library, handling failures, and managing actor lifecycles. The course covers examples such as creating a Counter and an Alarm, understanding actor hierarchy, and dealing with blocking scenarios. The intended audience for this course is Java developers interested in learning how to write concurrent code using Akka Actors.

Syllabus

- About the author
- History background
- About Akka
- Where Actors come from
- What an Actor is
- Configuring the Actors library
- Example #1 Counter
- Example #2 Alarm
- Actor hierarchy
- Failure handling
- Actor lifecylce
- Example #3 NotTrustWorthyChild and Supervisor
- About dispatcher
- About blocking
- Example #4 SynchronousDatabaseConnection
- Dos and don'ts
- What more is there
- Getting started docs
- Questions

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IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains

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