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Celso Crivelaro
September 23, 2016
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Actor Model in Ruby
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Transcript
Actor Model in Ruby Celso Crivelaro @celsocrivelaro http://crivelaro.me 1
DEVELOPER @ PROFESSOR @
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My problem
Authorization APIs SMTP Protocol Strange Protocol Strange Lib 5
Strange Protocol / Strange Lib => Unmaintained Bad documentation Troubleshooting
was impossible
Authorization APIs TCP/IP Custom Protocol SMTP Protocol
High Concurrency ~ 1000 connections Fault Tolerant Easy TCP Server
API
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Actors Reactor 10
Actor Model Theory
Actor 1 Mailbox Actor 2 Mailbox Actor 3 Mailbox
Actors are similar to Objects
Send messages to each other Asynchronous Actors Objects Synchronous Create
new ones Isolated Share memory Keep state
Actors can be distributed 15
Actor 1 Mailbox Actor 2 Mailbox Actor 3 Mailbox
Fault Tolerant
Let it crash philosophy
Actor 1 Mailbox Actor 2 Mailbox Actor 3 Mailbox Actor
4 Mailbox A4 is linked to A2 A2 is warned when A4 crashes A2 takes an action (restart A4) Avoid defensive programming
Who implements Actors 20
Pykka
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Celluloid Actors Ruby Objects Same structure from classes Runs over
threads / fibers Futures and Pools Sync / Async Methods
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When Actor crashes…
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What if another actor could do something?
Supervisors
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Even if an Actor just terminates
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Actor Supervisor Restart Actor Warn other Supervisor Callbacks Avoid begin…
rescue... / if Actions:
Must be finished to be CG’ed 35
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Futures
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Pool
Res 1 Res 2 Res 3 Pool Res 1 40
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http://www.mikeperham.com/2015/10/14/should-you-use-celluloid/
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Actors Reactor
Reactor Pattern 45
Handler 1 Handler 2 Dispatcher Handler 3 Handles service request
Delivered concurrently to handlers Demultiplexing Event Event Event
https://github.com/celluloid/nio4r
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Server Celluloid:IO Supervisor 50
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Important
Mutant Data Structure
Actor 1 Mailbox Actor 2 Mailbox Actor 3 Mailbox Microservices
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Evaluate the best concurrency model Celluloid Documentation
References
http://www.brianstorti.com/the-actor-model/
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https://www.sitepoint.com/an-introduction-to-celluloid-part-i/
https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid-io
http://queroserdevlocaweb.com.br/
Thank you! @celsocrivelaro Slides at http://crivelaro.me