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concurrent & distributed

Actor Model

by: @kjellski

at: C#/.Net Meetup Hamburg

Agenda

• What is Akka.Net

• How does it work?

• Getting Started

• Learn

Actor Model

• 1973
• mathematical model
• actors are universal concurrency primitives

• .Net implementation of TypeSafes Akka on the JVM 
• OpenSource with paid support from @PetaBridge
• Still Beta but first commit 01/2014

How does it Work?

ActorSystem

• hirarchcal structure
• supervision
• only one Darth Vader
• itself Actor based
• HOCON based configuration

How does it Work?

Actor

• transparent references 
• msg ordered from same origin
• children through Context.ActorOf
• Akka.Persistence for guarantees
• DeadLetters after termination

Getting Started

an actors "hello world!"

akkadotnet-code-samples

akka-bootcamp

Learn

Thanks!

Questions?