During this full day workshop we will practice implementing a scalable file distribution engine in C# or F# using actor model and Akka.NET.
You are not required to have prior knowledge of actor model or Akka framework, just bring a laptop with Windows or Mac and use your favorite .NET programming language with either Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider.

Workshop plan:

1. Introduction to actor model
2. Warming up
3. Writing actors
4. Actor supervision
5. Routing and scaling actors
6. Testing actors
7. Discussing results

Prerequisites:

1. Computer with either Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019) or JetBrains Rider installed.
2. Access to GitHub.
3. Knowledge of C# or F#.
4. If you want to become familiar with Akka.NET in advance, you can review tasks from Petabridge Akka Bootcamp (https://github.com/petabridge/akka-bootcamp), it has both C# and F# versions. There's no overlap between that bootcamp and our workshop, our tasks are all different.
5. While we will be building a file distribution engine, access to FTP server is not needed. We will use a mock that will simulate FTP operations on a local machine.