Explores the principles of reactive programming and message processing semantics in Akka, emphasizing actor encapsulation, reliable messaging, and message delivery guarantees.
Covers the basics of parallel programming, including concurrency, forms of parallelism, synchronization, and programming models like PThreads and OpenMP.
Explores lock-free synchronization for performance and scalability in distributed systems, covering unique identifier generation, messaging queues, and atomic RDMA reads.