Learn how the cloud platform can handle the "heavy lifting" of databases, allowing an organization to focus on core business.

Learn fundamental concepts of streaming data, and understand the deeper levels of engineering within a truly reactive system.

Learn the basics of publish-subscribe in Lagom as an alternative to complex point-to-point, database, and shared library integration.

Understand Kotlin coding conventions, what goes in a source file, how to write classes and subclasses, and much more.

Learn about default arguments, named arguments, nullable values, and how to use them as function arguments, smart casts, and more.

Use the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries to migrate to Java 11.

Set up a basic Akka cluster with a focus on cluster singletons.

Set up a basic Akka Cluster.

Set up a basic Akka cluster with a focus on cluster aware actors.

Set up a basic Akka cluster with an example implementation of Akka persistence.

Set up a basic Akka cluster with an example implementation of Akka persistence and Akka persistence query.

Set up a basic Akka cluster with an example implementation of cluster sharding.

Understand what the PortfolioEntity is and how to implement your own PersistentEntity in Lagom, leading into event sourcing.

Learn about a CQRS-based system, which allows separate models for reads and writes, enabling individual optimization for each side.

Learn how to query an event-sourced and CQRS-based system, and how to move processing into its own asynchronous boundary.

Explore how to manage a long-running transaction flow with multiple steps, processing wire transfer events as an example.

Learn how to use Spring Kafka to access an IBM Event Streams service on IBM Cloud.

Learn about statements and expressions, and all of the primitive data types the Kotlin language has to offer, with examples.