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Reactive Systems: Actor Model and Akka.NET

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
-Shakespeare  

This quote from William Shakespeare's pastoral comedy As You Like It, can be very helpful when describing Actor Model. In this post, we will see what an Actor Model is and how you can use it to build concurrent, distributed, and resilient applications.

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Leaning Towards Reactive Architecture

Why Reactive Architecture?

Reactive Architecture aims to provide software that remains responsive in all situations. Reactive Systems build user confidence by ensuring that the application is available whenever the users need it in all conditions.

What Is the Goal of Reactive Architecture?

  • Be responsive to interactions with its users
  • Handle failure and remain available during outages
  • Strive under varying load conditions
  • Be able to send, receive, and route messages in varying network conditions

What Is Reactive Manifesto?

The Reactive Manifesto is a document that was authored by Jonas Boner, Dave Farley, Roland Kuhn and Martin Thompson. The Manifesto was created in response to companies trying to cope with changes in the software landscape. Multiple groups or companies independently developed similar patterns for solving similar solutions. So aspects of a Reactive Systems were previously individually recognized by these groups. So the Manifesto attempts to bring all of these common ideas into a single unified set of principles, known as Reactive Principles.