Alt.Net Talks - The Actor Model

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1. The Actor Model
2. About Me I am a passionate developer doing .NET stuff at Genetec MiKaDoO MiKaDo_O
3. Formalized by Carl Hewitt in 1973 The Actor Model
4. What is an Actor?
5. An actor is a fundamental unit of computation…
6. It’s a primitive unit that embodies processing, storage and communication
7. In fact, it’s not so different from OO
8. « Actor model retained more of what I thought were the good features of the object idea » Alan Kay
9. An actor can create new actors, send messages and designate how to handle the next message
10. Why is it used to build concurrent applications?
11. One actor is no actor, they come in a system
12. Actors are cheap
13. Interactions by message passing
14. Process one message at the time
15. Communication is asynchronuous by design
16. Akka.NET Port of one implementation of the actor model
17. Demo Time
18. Thanks, that's all! Any question?