actor-basic-tutorial-1

Session notes (Jupyter notebook) for an introduction to actors with working Akka example to demonstrate actor approach to concurrency.

Material used as part of a 1 hour introductory session on actor based frameworks.

Additional material including full scala code & benchmarks to follow.

Comments, questions etc welcome.

Notes:

• needs to be executed using Jupyter to enable interactive widget for simulation / exploration of Amdahl's law.
• simulation models effect of solution design on theoretical scalability and costs of execution.