Thursday, November 15, 2012
Distributed systems
The actor model is an dated model for building distributed system without dealing with complex and tricky shared state. At the basis it's quite simple: you model the system in term of unit of code (actors) receiving, elaborating and sending messages.
Each actor encapsulate state and behavior.
The system is made of millions of actors which are location trasparent..... Can run anywhere.
The system is build with the principle of http://letitcrash.com/.
Typesafe has an open source actor implementation called akka (providing both java ans scala API are every Typesafe product right now)
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erlang docet.
ReplyDelete( IMO erlang/OTP is one of the most intriguing perspective of software architecture that _must_ be explored by anyone interested in robust/scalabe/distributed application )