Hands on Introduction to Distributed Systems Concepts with Akka Clustering

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Physical model of an Akka Cluster runs on 6 Raspberry Pis and demonstrates gossip-based membership, the failure detector, cluster singleton and leader state transitions, and merge-friendly CRDTs in Akka 2.4. Production claim: HootSuite uses Akka to process about 2 million users in real time. Demo uses Akka remoting and Akka HTTP router, with auto-down 30s for split brains and mentions split-brain-resolver options; the live demo partially fails due to an old Wi‑Fi router and JVM/configuration errors, code is published online.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:20Who am I
3. 1:42Agenda
4. 5:03Eight fallacies of distributed systems
5. 9:50How do we pass information
6. 11:29How do we detect failure
7. 13:11Cluster Singletons
8. 14:14Cluster Leader
9. 16:12Handling Partitions
10. 18:30Distributed Data
11. 22:13Demo
12. 31:01Quiz
13. 31:58Summary

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