A good software system should be performant, scalable, and efficient. Along with infrastructure, it depends a lot on the way it’s written. In the course, Scala Asynchronous Programming, you’ll learn how to achieve better performance and scalability by non-blocking and asynchronous code. First, you’ll discover why blocking is not the way to go, you’ll understand why it’s important to write asynchronous code. Then, you’ll explore one of the high level abstractions for writing async code i.e. Scala Futures. By the end of the course, you’ll learn to create Scala Futures and how to handle successful and failed future values. Finally, you’ll learn about the actor model and how it can be used to write async message based systems. You’ll learn the basics of using Akka’s actor model, along with writing message protocols, async communication, supervision strategy. You’ll learn how a shared mutable state is handled in Actors. You’ll also get a basic understanding about routing, mailbox and dispatcher. By the end of this course, you’ll have the knowledge to use Scala Futures or Actor Model for writing scalable and performant software systems.
Author Name: Vikash Sharma
Author Description:
Vikash Sharma is a developer, trainer and open source technology evangelist. He has invested a large amount of time learning and implementing Scala code and authored video course for Scala. He has authored a beginner’s book on Scala named Learning Scala Programming. He works as a developer at SAP Labs.

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Why Asynchronous Programming
  13mins
• Going Async with Scala Futures
  23mins
• Actor Model for Async Communication
  27mins
• Supervision Strategy for Handling Failovers & Configuring ActorSystem
  21mins