Overview
The Actor Fundamentals course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Actor Model, a powerful paradigm for building scalable, concurrent, and distributed systems. This course explores key concepts like asynchronous communication, fault tolerance, and state management, empowering you to design robust systems for modern applications. Whether you’re new to the Actor Model or looking to deepen your understanding, this training equips you with the knowledge and practical skills to create high-performance applications.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will:
Prerequisites
- Basic programming experience in any language.
- Familiarity with object-oriented or functional programming concepts is a plus.
Course Outline
- Historical background and relevance.
- Understanding concurrency challenges.
- Benefits of using the Actor Model.
- Creating and managing actors.
- Actor lifecycle and state management.
- Message passing and asynchronous communication.
- Actor supervision and fault recovery.
- Actor hierarchies and failure isolation.
- Distributed actor systems.
- Implementing patterns like routers and aggregators.
- Real-world use cases of the Actor Model.
- Performance tuning and debugging actor-based systems.