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Lightbend Akka Cluster - Sharding (Scala)

Lightbend Akka Cluster - Sharding (Scala)
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This course will show you how to use Akka Cluster Sharding as part of a Reactive System.
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About This Course

Akka Cluster Sharding allows us to build systems that can be responsive to our users needs. These systems are both elastic and resilient in part due to the message driven nature of the actors they are built on. In short, they are Reactive.

Your goal in this course will be to learn about Akka Cluster Sharding and its various features, while converting a stateless microservice into a stateful one. This will allow us to see the difference between a system that relies entirely on the database to provide consistent state, and a system that isn't beholden to the database to provide consistency.

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Course Syllabus

  • Stateless Systems
  • Akka Cluster Sharding
  • Stateful Systems
  • Passivation
  • Rebalancing
  • Remembering Entities
  • Minimum Number of Members

General Information

  • This course is only available to Lightbend Subscribers. For more information, see academy.lightbend.com/faq.
  • It is self-paced.
  • It can be taken at any time.
  • The materials can be reviewed as many times as you want.
  • Quizzes and exams can only be completed once.

Course Length

  • Approximately 6 hours

Requirements

  • JDK 9-11
  • This course assumes that students are familiar with the Scala Language. You will need to understand concepts such as classes, objects, methods, functions (including partial functions) etc.
  • It is assumed that you have a strong grasp of Akka Actors, Dispatchers, Mailboxes etc.
  • The course uses Akka Cluster and it is assumed that you understand the basics of how to setup an Akka Cluster.
  • This course makes use of SBT. However, only a minimal amount of SBT knowledge is required.
  • You will need Lightbend Commercial Credentials to complete the exercises.

Course Staff

Wade Waldron

Wade Waldron

Wade Waldron is the Director of Training at Lightbend.

Wade started his career as a developer in 2005 building games for the Playstation 2, Xbox, etc. In 2011 he joined Point2 Homes where he began working on an Akka based microservices platform to provide realtime updates to real estate websites. In 2014 Wade joined BoldRadius where he consulted with a variety of companies on how to use Akka, and related technologies. He also began teaching courses on Akka and Scala.

In 2016, Wade released a book "Applied Akka Patterns" along with his co-author Michael Nash

Today Wade works with Lightbend where he consults with clients and builds training materials. He focuses on helping people make a smooth transition from a monolithic application to Reactive microservices.

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