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Akka intro presentation

Actor Based Concurrency

Why actors?

Problem: Shared mutable variables/state

One solution: Isolated Mutability

Threads/Locks
Lots of work writing/debugging the “plumbing” rather than application logic
Easy to create deadlock and hard to recover from

Another Solution: Actors

Originally from Erlang
Developed in 1986 by Joe Armstrong