In Unit 1, we will learn the fundamentals of how the actor model and Akka.NET work.

*NIX systems have the tail command built-in to monitor changes to a file (such as tailing log files), whereas Windows does not. We will recreate tail for Windows and use the process to learn the fundamentals.

In Unit 1 you will learn:

1. How to create your own ActorSystem and actors;
2. How to send messages actors and how to handle different types of messages;
3. How to use Props and IActorRefs to build loosely coupled systems.
4. How to use actor paths, addresses, and ActorSelection to send messages to actors.
5. How to create child actors and actor hierarchies, and how to supervise children with SupervisionStrategy.
6. How to use the Actor lifecycle to control actor startup, shutdown, and restart behavior.

Begin Unit 1.

In Unit 2, we're going to get into some more of the intermediate Akka.NET features to build a more sophisticated application than what we accomplished at the end of unit 1.

In Unit 2 you will learn:

1. How to use HOCON configuration to configure your actors via App.config and Web.config;
2. How to configure your actor's Dispatcher to run on the Windows Forms UI thread, so actors can make operations directly on UI elements without needing to change contexts;
3. How to handle more sophisticated types of pattern matching using ReceiveActor;
4. How to use the Scheduler to send recurring messages to actors;
5. How to use the Publish-subscribe (pub-sub) pattern between actors;
6. How and why to switch actor's behavior at run-time; and
7. How to Stash messages for deferred processing.

Begin Unit 2.

In Unit 3, we will learn how to use actors for parallelism and scale-out using Octokit and data from Github repos!

In Unit 3 you will learn:

1. How to perform work asynchronously inside your actors using PipeTo;
2. How to use Ask to wait inline for actors to respond to your messages;
3. How to use ReceiveTimeout to time out replies from other actors;
4. How to use Group routers to divide work among your actors;
5. How to use Pool routers to automatically create and manage pools of actors; and
6. How to use HOCON to configure your routers.

Begin Unit 3.