Actor Model Courses and Certifications

Building Concurrent Applications with the Actor Model in Akka.NET

397 ratings at Pluralsight

Easily build concurrent .NET applications using the high level abstractions of the Actor Model that automatically recovers from errors and that can be distributed across multiple computers with little additional effort.

• Pluralsight
• 3 hours 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

NDC Conferences

Pub Crawling in Orleans: Exploring the Actor Model - NDC Porto 2023

Explore the Actor model with Orleans, Microsoft's implementation for creating distributed systems. Learn features and build a scalable pub crawl platform in this demo-heavy session.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Code Sync

Comparing the Actor Model and CSP Concurrency with Elixir and Clojure

Explore the Actor Model and CSP concurrency paradigms, comparing BEAM VM and JVM implementations through Elixir and Clojure. Gain insights into their unique features, strengths, and approaches to concurrency challenges.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Code Sync

The Actor Model as a Load Testing Framework - Lambda Days 2023

Explore scalability and load testing using the actor model. Learn to ensure software reliability under extreme conditions and discover a ready-to-use library for implementation.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Conf42

Leveraging the Actor Model in Financial Transaction Systems

Explore the Actor Model's application in financial systems, covering transaction processing, lost update problems, and asynchronous solutions using Kafka and Actor Model implementation.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

JSConf

The Actor Model: Orchestrating Complex Applications

Explore the Actor Model's role in orchestrating complex applications, with practical demos showcasing its utility in frontend and backend development for improved code performance.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Programming Reactive Systems (Scala 2 version)

Explore reactive systems using Scala and Akka. Learn asynchronous programming, actor model, failure handling, distributed computing, typed actors, and stream processing for scalable and resilient applications.

• Coursera
• 2 days 3 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Programming Reactive Systems

30 ratings at Coursera

Implementación de sistemas reactivos escalables y resilientes usando Scala y Akka. Aprende sobre actores, computaciones asíncronas y streams reactivos para crear aplicaciones concurrentes y distribuidas.

• Coursera
• 2 days 1 hour 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Functional Programming with Elixir – Full Course

1 review

Aprenda programação funcional com Elixir, desde conceitos básicos até aplicações práticas. Domine recursão, tipos de dados, controle de fluxo e projetos reais para se tornar um desenvolvedor Elixir confiante.

• freeCodeCamp
• 5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reactive Architecture: Introduction to Reactive Systems

Learn core principles of Reactive Architecture, exploring its goals, benefits, and relationship to Reactive Programming. Understand the Actor Model and analyze a real-world case study.

• Cognitive Class
• 5 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Microsoft Orleans

202 ratings at Pluralsight

Microsoft Orleans, the Virtual Actor Framework developed by Microsoft Research is ideal for building distributed high scale systems with C#.

• Pluralsight
• 1 hour 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Stateful Reactive Concurrent SPAs with SignalR and Akka.NET 1

118 ratings at Pluralsight

Develop reactive, real-time SPAs using Actor Model for concurrency. Learn to create stateful, scalable web apps with Akka.NET, SignalR, and Knockout through building a multiplayer online game.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Advanced Data and Stream Processing with Microsoft TPL Dataflow

63 ratings at Pluralsight

CPUs have more and more cores, but writing parallel programs is tricky. In this course, you will learn how the data flow programming model combined with the actor model makes writing high performance, large data-processing systems easy.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Representing IoT Systems with the Actor Model and Akka.NET 1

29 ratings at Pluralsight

There will be over 20 billion connected things in use by 2020. This course will teach you why the Actor Model and Akka.NET is a good fit for representing IoT systems that support reactive, concurrent, scalable, distributed, and fault tolerant apps.

• Pluralsight
• 2 hours 16 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available

Scala Asynchronous Programming

14 ratings at Pluralsight

This course enables developers to write non-blocking and asynchronous code using Scala. You'll learn how to use Scala Futures for writing async code. It covers how actor model can be leveraged to write an asynchronous and message based application.

• Pluralsight
• 1-2 hours
• On-Demand
• Free Trial Available