3 docs tagged with "actors"

Choosing the right building block for asynchronous workloads is critical. Actors excel at managing in-memory state and orchestrating concurrent work. Their mailboxes are ephemeral and rely on best-effort delivery. If a process crashes, in-flight messages may be lost. For workflows that demand durable delivery, ordering or replay, a dedicated queue or log is the safer option.

A common misconception is that actor systems automatically handle unlimited message rates. In reality, every actor has finite processing capacity. Unbounded mailboxes may lead to increased memory usage and eventually to process failure.

Proto.Actor builds on ideas popularised by Erlang/OTP and Akka but aims to provide a minimal, cross-language runtime.