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What is your thoughts about the Actor Model?
The Actor Model that is used by Erlang seem to be a very different way to do concurrent programming. What is your thoughts on the Actor Model? Will it be a popular solution for concurrency?
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Is the architecture of my project a common one? What's its name?
I am responsible for a software project for a few years now (a Java desktop application, which is mostly event-driven). I started it from scratch, and at the beginning of this project I made some ...
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Is my description of the actor model right?
If I understood, the actor model is just like the object model, but with a few differences:
EVERY object spawns it's own separate thread and its not a problem even when you have thousands of ...
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Actor library / framework for C++
In the C++ project I am working on, we have an application consisting of
several processes deployed on different machines. This network of
processes is dynamic since processes (clients or background ...
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What are the recommended resources for learning about the Actor model of concurrent systems?
The Actor concurrency model is clearly gaining favor. Is there a good book that presents the patterns and pitfalls of the model? I am thinking about something that would discuss, for instance, the ...
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How is the actor model used?
I have read a bit about the actor model, but don't really understand how to use actors in a real world situation – how to model a problem with them.
Can someone please explain? A simple example or ...
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Actor based concurrency and cancellation
I'm reading about actor based concurrency and I appreciate the simplicity of actors sequentially processing messages on a single thread. However there is one scenario that doesn't seen possible.
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Error checking in actor-based paradigm
I have an existing Scala application that I am trying to refactor in order to use Akka. One of the problems I have is how to manage error-checking in actor-based applications.
Usually error-checking ...
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Using an actor model versus a producer-consumer model?
I'm doing some early-stage research towards architecting a new software application. Concurrency and multithreading will likely play a significant part, so I've been reading up on the various topics.
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Is Lambda function same as Actor? How can it be explained?
Sometime back I read (from a book) that conceptually Lambda function is similar to Actor.
However I am clear on the concept, and will appreciate any insight or explanations for this.
If they are ...
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Using akka actors with service spring beans
Do you think that using akka actors in front of transactional service beans, is a good idea ?
Actors are waked up by a facade used by a client application, and actor use a message to handle right ...
