Overview
The Akka Cluster Fundamentals course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of Akka Cluster technology. It focuses on building distributed, fault-tolerant applications by leveraging Akka Cluster capabilities. Participants will learn to create resilient systems that adapt dynamically to changes and scale effortlessly. Whether you’re building microservices or real-time applications, this course equips you with the tools and techniques needed to succeed in a distributed architecture environment.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of Akka and actor systems.
- Experience with programming in Java or Scala.
- Familiarity with distributed system concepts is recommended.
Course Outline
- Key concepts of distributed systems.
- Overview of Akka Cluster features and architecture.
- Setting up an Akka Cluster environment.
- Node discovery and gossip protocol.
- Membership lifecycle and cluster events.
- Implementing role-based cluster nodes.
- Handling node failures and split-brain scenarios.
- Configuring auto-healing and downing strategies.
- Understanding Akka Distributed Data.
- Consistency models and CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types).
- Implementing a resilient shared state.
- Introduction to Akka Sharding.
- Cluster-aware routers for load balancing.
- Optimizing clusters for real-world applications.
- Real-world use cases of Akka Clusters.
- Troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Patterns for scalable and resilient systems.