Developer Voices Designing Actor-Based Software (with Hugh McKee)
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May 15, 2024 Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate for Lightbend, discusses the actor model in software design, focusing on patterns, event-driven approaches, and architectural comparisons. He explores the evolution of event-driven systems, highlights scalability benefits, and emphasizes the importance of picking the right tools for robust system design.
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Actor Model Definition
- Actors are independent state machines, similar to objects with attributes.
- They communicate indirectly through asynchronous messages, like humans texting.
Emergent Complexity
- Simple actors interact in a complex network within a large application.
- This changes programming, system building, and architectural thinking.
AI and Actors
- Hugh McKee's introduction to the actor model came through a Scala course in 2013, featuring Akka.
- He compares actors to neurons in neural networks, highlighting their fundamental similarity to AI.