Practical Reactive Streams with Akka and Java (Udemy.com)
Learn how to build asynchronous, non-blocking reactive streams with back-pressure - a really practical hands-on course
Created by: Matt Greencroft
Last updated October 2021
What you will learn
- What are reactive streams and when should you use them
- How to build asynchronous, non-blocking, reative streams with back-pressure
- The Akka Streams API and GraphDSL
- How to correctly implement asynchronous boundaries and parallelism
- How to integrate Akka Actors into reactive streams
Course Description
This course builds on the "Practical Java concurrency with the Akka Actor Model" course and will extend your knowledge of using the actor model with Akka and Java to create reactive streams.
Reactive Streams are an essential tool in building real-world concurrent applications with the actor model – they allow us to build more complex processing scenarios, deal with varying data loads effectively, and provide the foundation for connecting our applications to external systems (which is covered in the Akka Http course).
For developers new to this technology it can be tough to get started, so in this course we cover everything from scratch. We build up the knowlege step by step, meaning you'll have no problems following along and understanding everything we do.
The course is full of practical real-world scenarios – we’ll be taking the blockchain mining application that we built in the Practical Java concurrency with the Akka Actor Model course a few steps further to make it even more realistic.
Please note that although Akka is built in Scala, no Scala knowledge is needed for this course - the course covers Akka with Java and we won't be writing any Scala code.
This course covers the newer Akka Typed API only.
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
200 Reviews
Matt Greencroft
Having worked for over 20 years as a professional programmer, mainly in banking, Matt now teaches for Virtual Pair Programmers. His specialist areas are advanced Java, Spring Framework, Kotlin and Akka.
Outside of work, Matt enjoys cycling, but prefers going downhill to uphill, and he also plays the piano… very badly.
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Reviews
By Anonymized User on 3/8/2024
I used this to better my understanding of Akka.Net Streams, very helpful
By David Pinholster on 4/4/2023
Very good, powerful tools!
By Chris LaCount on 2/7/2023
Great course and felt that the knowledge was easily explained and attainable.
By Ivan Budzel on 1/22/2023
some important concepts missed as join for example
By Phanindra Vuppalapati on 4/27/2022
The course is good . Can we have some examples on Alpakka. As i feel it is built on top of streams and that is just an extension
By Jason Morris on 9/24/2021
So far, so good. We'll if it holds up. So far, it's better than Lighbend's Akka Streams course.
By Aditya Ghuwalewala on 5/22/2021
Very systematic and step by step explanation of the concepts. Really good
By Gary Janes on 1/6/2021
Excellent examples and clearly explained. Very much looking forward to the Akka Http course
By Mithun Kini on 8/23/2020
Instructor is very knowledgeable and concepts are clearly explained. I have subscribed both Akka Actor and Akka Streams. Cheers!
By Sai Kiran on 7/29/2020
This is the best course to learn Akka streams. . I'm loving it so far, Matt is the best processor in explaining the complex concepts in the simple way
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Overall Score : 92 / 100











