BB
Reviewed Aug 4, 2023
Great at teaching theory. I had to watch a bunch of RockTheJVM videos to learn how to actually program Akka, though.
Great assignments, sleep inducing lectures
Programming Reactive Systems
Reactive programming is a set of techniques for implementing scalable, resilient and responsive systems as per the Reactive Manifesto. Such systems are based on asynchronous message-passing, and their basic building-blocks are event handlers. This course teaches how to implement reactive systems in Scala and Akka by using high-level abstractions, such as actors, asynchronous computations, and reactive streams. You will learn how to: - use, transform and sequence asynchronous computations using Future values - write concurrent reactive systems based on Actors and message passing, using untyped Akka and Akka Typed - design systems resilient to failures - implement systems that can scale out according to a varying workload - transform and consume infinite and intermittent streams of data with Akka Stream in a non-blocking way - understand how back-pressure controls flows of data
Status: Functional Design
Status: Scala Programming
IntermediateCourse50 hours
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Amol
3.0
Reviewed Jun 30, 2021John
2.0
Reviewed Jun 5, 2022Interesting course but the assignments are a mess. Very poorly expained and unorganized. The author assumes we master the material. Currently unmaintained, no one will respond to a question ever. This defeats the purpose of learning. This course could be a lot better
D
1.0
Reviewed Dec 31, 2021This course falls short in a few areas: 1. Course questions/comments are not responded to by the instructor(s). So, if the student has any questions or needs clarification regarding the content or assignments, the student will have to look elsewhere for help. 2. This course would more appropriately be titled "Use of Akka Libraries", or something similar, as instruction frequently gets lost in the details of Akka libraries, and the student is left wondering how the content relates to "Programming Reactive Systems". 3. The instructions for the homework assignments are incomplete, and will leave the student perpetually wondering what is actually expected from the exercise.
Mike
5.0
Reviewed Oct 14, 2024So the course is very interesting. The course is good not only for beginners in reactive systems, but also for guys who already work with akka. Personally for me, was interesting to see how akka types changes. I like the course.
Johannes
5.0
Reviewed Feb 4, 2024Pretty hard, especially week 5. Only do the assignments if you are up to a challenge.
Joël
4.0
Reviewed Oct 27, 2021Very interesting concepts. Good slides, presentation, and examples. The practice exercises can be demanding. Indeed, the akka API is quite sophisticated and powerful it thus requires time and patience to understand. I am wondering how widespread their use is and how easy it is to onboard engineers in concrete projects using akka actors & streams.
Bartłomiej
4.0
Reviewed Feb 6, 2025Good course, quite difficult but rewarding. I think textual descriptions for some of the exercises could be improved a little bit(kvstore).
Barnaby
4.0
Reviewed Aug 5, 2023Great at teaching theory. I had to watch a bunch of RockTheJVM videos to learn how to actually program Akka, though.
Ian
3.0
Reviewed Aug 1, 2022On the positive side, the topic and course videos are great. Unfortunately, I found most of the programming assignments to be way too time consuming and unforgiving. What's more, there's little to no community activity or support from the instructors. Meaning you need to "go it alone" with the difficult assignments. (Completed August 1st with 95% grade).
Pablo
2.0
Reviewed Oct 17, 2022I want to it will be more reactive and less actors model.
Oleksiy
1.0
Reviewed Jun 19, 2022needless course: extremly hard to follow long lectures , unclear tasks, no manuals on how to complete assignemnts, leck of examples. I wasted my time, 7 weeks is too much