The official repository for the Rock the JVM Akka Classic Essentials course

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This repository contains the code we wrote during Rock the JVM's Akka Classic Essentials course. Unless explicitly mentioned, the code in this repository is exactly what was caught on camera.

Also check out the latest Akka Typed course!

How to install

• either clone the repo or download as zip
• open with IntelliJ as an SBT project

No need to do anything else, as the IDE will take care to download and apply the appropriate library dependencies.

How to start

Clone this repository and checkout the start tag:

git checkout start

How to run an intermediate state

The repository was built while recording the lectures. Prior to each lecture, I tagged each commit so you can easily go back to an earlier state of the repo!

The tags are as follows:

• start
• 1.1-general-recap
• 1.2-advanced-recap
• 1.3-multithreading-recap
• 1.4-thread-model-limitations
• 2.2-actors-intro
• 2.3-actor-capabilitites
• 2.4-actors-exercises
• 2.6-changing-actor-behavior
• 2.8-changing-behavior-exercise
• 2.9-child-actors
• 2.10-child-actors-exercise
• 2.11-actor-logging
• 2.12-config
• 3.1-testkit-intro
• 3.2-testprobes
• 3.3-timed-assertions
• 3.4-intercepting-logs
• 3.5-synchronous-testing
• 4.1-starting-stopping-actors
• 4.2-actor-lifecycle
• 4.3-supervision
• 4.4-backoff-supervisor
• 5.1-timers-schedulers
• 5.2-routers
• 5.3-dispatchers
• 5.4-mailboxes
• 6.1-stash
• 6.2-ask
• 6.3-fsm
• 6.4-fsm-part-2

When you watch a lecture, you can git checkout the appropriate tag and the repo will go back to the exact code I had when I started the lecture.

For questions or suggestions

If you have changes to suggest to this repo, either

• submit a GitHub issue
• tell me in the course Q/A forum
• submit a pull request!