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Programming Reactive Systems

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Course Features

Duration

9 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Intermediate

Effort

7 hours per week

Teaching Type

Self Paced

Course Description

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.

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Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

You should have at least one year programming experience, preferably in Scala or a functional language.

What You Will Learn

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

Course Content

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Module 1: Abstraction over event handlers

Module 2: Writing concurrent systems with the Actor programming model

Module 3: Making systems resilient to failures

Module 4: Scaling out to distributed actors

Course Instructors

Roland Kuhn

Dr at Actyx

Roland Kuhn is CTO and co-founder of Actyx, author of Reactive Design Patterns, a co-author of the Reactive Manifesto, co-teacher of the Coursera course “Principles of Reactive Programming”, and a pa...

Konrad Malawski

M at ex Akka team

Konrad Malawski has been part of the the core Akka team at Lightbend until mid-2018, where he has contributed to most of its modules, including core Actors, Persistence, Streams, Clustering as well a...

Martin Odersky

Dr at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has been working on programming languages for most of his career. He first studied structured and object-oriented programming as a P...

Julien Richard-Foy

Dr at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Julien Richard-Foy is director of education at Scala Center. He makes sure that programming techniques that have been proven successful in the industry or that have solid theoretical foundations are accessible to as many curious people as possible.