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The Coursera course Priniples of Reactive Programming was presented twice—in 2013 and in 2014—by Martin Odersky, Erik Meijer, and Roland Kuhn. The final three weeks of this seven-week course are taught by Roland Kuhn and treat Actors as a model of distributed computation and reactive design. Together with the material on Akka Typed from the edX course Programming Reactive Systems that started running in 2019 (with Julien Richard-Foy and Konrad Malawski) they nicely complement the book with video lectures.

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Teaching the course was an awesome experience, but I never made any money off of it. In case you feel like buying me a beverage (beer, coffee, tea), here’s a paypal link that would allow you to do so. Many thanks! Side note:

First week: the Actor Model

• Introduction: why actors? [14:46]
• The Actor Model [13:43]
• Message Processing Semantics [27:28]
• Designing Actor Systems [38:43]
• Testing Actor Systems [17:16]

Second week: handling failure and state

• Failure Handling with Actors [22:38]
• Lifecycle Monitoring and The Error Kernel [24:07]
• Persistent Actor State [24:49]

Third week: distributed computing

• Actors are Distributed (Part 1) [36:30]
• Actors are Distributed (Part 2) [18:17]
• Eventual Consistency [15:49]
• Actor Composition [20:14]
• Scalability [17:00]
• Responsiveness [11:13]

Fourth week: typed actors

• Introduction to Protocols [11:28]
• Protocols in Akka Typed [14:27]
• Testing Akka Typed Behaviors [8:29]
• Akka Typed Facilities [16:02]
• Akka Typed Persistence [12:49]
• Supervision revisited [10:02]