Actors

An "awesome list" of actor model resources

Overview

Unfamiliar with actors? Checkout these pages to quickly get up to speed and answer commonly asked questions.

• What is an actor?
• Primary benefits of an actor system
• When should I use actors?
• When should I not use actors?

Interested, but want more? Checkout the Videos & Podcasts section for content or, if you're feeling particularly adventurous you can try out the Advanced Topics section for a deeper dive.

Actor Libraries

Sold on the idea of actors, but unsure where to start? Pick your favoriate implementation or langauge below and get to hacking.

Videos & Podcasts

Advanced Topics

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TODO

• Introductory material

  • What are actors? 10k foot view?
  • Primary benefits
    • isolation
    • scalability (through properties of time independence and location transparency)
    • dynamic construction / composition
    • ?? other topics ??
  • When to Use / Comparison
    • Compare the actor model as a form of concurrency against other primitives such as threads, futures, processes, etc.

• Language specific frameworks

• Podcasts? (there may not be enough content to warrant)

  • Programming Throwdown (ep82)

• Advanced Topics (good to segment out information to avoid overwhelming newcomers)

  • Research papers (OG Hewitt&Baker paper + modern advancements)
  • Any good blog posts or talks about advanced topics (clustering, actor scheduling, patterns & practices, etc)