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Pony, Actors, Causality, Types, and Garbage Collection
Sophia Drossopoulou gives an overview of Pony’s programming model, actors, and causality.
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Stateful Programming Models in Serverless Functions
Chris Gillum explores two stateful programming models - workflows and actors.
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High Performance Actors
Kiki Carter takes a deep-dive to investigate how efficient resource utilization is achieved with Akka & looks at some of the other libraries that Akka leverages for improved efficiency-Aeron, JCTools
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Actors or Not: Async Event Architectures
Yaroslav Tkachenko discusses two approaches to an asynchronous event-based architecture: a "classic" style protocol and an actor-based approach, exploring benefits, challenges, and lessons learned.
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Erlang and Akka Actors–A Story of Tradeoffs
Pranav Rao discusses how BEAM differs from Akka actors implemented over the JVM and how design decisions can affect performance.
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Loquat: A Design for Large-scale Distributed Applications
Christopher Meiklejohn introduces Loqaut, a design for large-scale actor programming on the Erlang virtual machine.
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Scaling Distributed Systems
Natalia Chechina outlines features of actor and functional programming models, and the reason these models attract so much interest in parallel, concurrent, and scaling world.
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Actors for CyberThings
Carl Hewitt keynotes on the Actor Model and ActorScript, providing examples of using them for large-scale datacenters and IoT.
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Concurrency: It’s Harder (and Easier) than You Think
Paul Butcher discusses difficulties with concurrency and some of the alternatives that help with this, focusing on Actors and how they help deal with threads and locks and make code clearer.
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Real World Akka Recipes
Jamie Allen describes three patterns using Akka actors: handling a lack of guaranteed delivery, distributing tasks to worker actors and implementing distributed workers in an Akka cluster.
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Concurrency and Parallel Computing in JavaScript
Stephan Herhut overviews concurrency and parallelism in JavaScript and the HTML5, discussing actors, futures and what throughput computing in the browser looks like.
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