Offered By: IBM
Reactive Architecture: Distributed Messaging Platforms
Reactive Systems are built on a foundation of asynchronous, non-blocking messages. This course will explore that idea in detail.
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590 EnrolledAt a Glance
Reactive Systems are built on a foundation of asynchronous, non-blocking messages. This course will explore that idea in detail.
- You will receive a completion certificate.
- Message Driven Architecture
- The role of messages in a distributed system.
- A comparison of synchronous, and asynchronous messages
- Sagas
- Introducing the Saga pattern as a way to deal with transactional problems in a distributed system.
- Messaging Patterns
- A discussion of The Two Generals Problem
- Delivery Guarantees in a distributed system
- Point to Point messaging
- Publish Subscribe messaging
- It is self-paced.
- It can be taken at any time.
- It can be taken as many times as you wish.
- Experience in the design of software systems.
- The minimum passing mark for the course is 75%, where the review questions are worth 40%, the case study exercises are worth 30% and the final exam is worth 30% of the course mark.
- You have 1 attempt to take the final exam with multiple attempts per question.
- Reactive Architecture: Introduction to Reactive Systems, Reactive Architecture: Domain Driven Design and Reactive Architecture: Reactive Microservices, Reactive Architecture: Building Scalable Systems or an understanding of the concepts covered in these courses.

Wade Waldron
Wade started his career as a developer in 2005 building games for the Playstation 2, Xbox, etc. In 2011 he joined Point2 Homes where he began working on an Akka based microservices platform to provide realtime updates to real estate websites. In 2014 Wade joined BoldRadius where he consulted with a variety of companies on how to use Akka, and related technologies. He also began teaching courses on Akka and Scala.
In 2016, Wade released a book "Applied Akka Patterns" along with his co-author Michael Nash
Today Wade works with Akka where he consults with clients and builds training materials. He focuses on helping people make a smooth transition from a monolithic application to Reactive microservices.
Estimated Effort
6 Hours
Level
Intermediate
Skills You Will Learn
Reactive architecture
Language
English
Course Code
LB0109EN