Practical Java concurrency with the Akka Actor Model

Learn how to avoid thread-safety issues, synchronization and blocking with a really practical hands-on course

What you'll learn

Concurrent Java programming using the Actor Framework
How the Actor Model works and can be used as a better alternatives to Thread creation
How to use the core Akka libraries to build robust, thread-safe, concurrent applications

Requirements

Basic Java knowledge
Some existing Java multi-threading programming is helpful but not essential
No knowledge of Akka or Scala is needed

Description

This course will cover how to use the Actor Model provided by the Akka framework to build robust, thread-safe concurrent applications with Java.

Instead of creating threads, worrying about thread-safe variables, using synchronization and locks, learn how the actor model gives us a completely different way to approach concurrent programming.

The course is full of practical real-world scenarios - you'll even build a basic blockchain mining application.

Please note that although Akka is built in Scala, no Scala knowledge is needed for this course - the course covers Akka with Java and we won't be writing any Scala code.

This course covers the newer Akka Typed API only.

Who this course is for:

Novice and experienced Java developers who need to enhance their concurrent programming skills.