Proto.Actor with Roger Johansson
Ready for another actor framework? Carl and Richard talk to Roger Johansson about his work on proto.actor, and ultra-light-weight, easy to get into actor framework for .NET and Go. The conversation starts out with Akka.NET, the framework that Roger worked on a few years ago, and how it's origins in Java gave it a certain amount of ceremony that Roger thought could be simplified - hence proto.actor! With a focus on speed and simplicity, proto.actor uses libraries like Google's protocol buffers to work with other platforms and libraries well, check it out!
Guests:
Roger Johansson
Roger Johansson, Solution Architect at Betsson Group in Stockholm Sweden. He has a deep passion for open source and have been leading various open source project since the early days of .NET. Founder of Akka.NET and now focusing on the Actor Model version 2: Proto.Actor - A cross platform high performance actor model framework for .NET and Go
Links:
- Message Loop in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_loop_in_Microsoft_Windows
- proto.actor http://proto.actor/
- Akka,NET http://getakka.net/
- Orleans https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/
- Google's Protocol Buffers https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/
- Task Parallel Library https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460717(v=vs.110).aspx
- Ryver https://ryver.com/
- Go https://golang.org/
- Service Fabric Reliable Actors https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-reliable-actors-introduction
- Polly http://www.thepollyproject.org/
- Zipkin http://zipkin.io/