Jonas Bonér on the Actor Model, Akka, Reactive Programming, Microservices and Distributed Systems

Jonas Bonér, CTO of LightBend and creator Akka, discusses using Akka when developing distributed systems. He talks about the Actor Model, and how every Microservice needs to be viewed as a system to be successful. Why listen to this podcast: - Akka is JVM-based framework design for developing distributed systems leveraging the Actor Model - an approach for writing concurrent systems that treat actors as universal primitives and the most successful model with abstraction has been streaming - Circuit breakers in Akka are a backup and retry policy; they protect you by capturing failure data and allow you to roll back - Every Microservice needs to be viewed as a system, it needs to have multiple parts that run on different machines in order to function and be fully resilient - thus is a Microsystem - Two different trends have emerged when it comes to hardware and environments: one is the trend toward Multi-core, the is a movement toward virtualized environments and the cloud - Saga pattern of managing long running transactions in a distributed system fits very well with messaging style architectures Notes and links can be found on: http://bit.ly/2kwB2eB Akka The Actor Model When Akka and the Actor Model is the perfect choice Circuit breakers patterns in distributed systems Two trends toward Multi-core Reactive Manifesto Event Driven vs. Message Driven Reactive Programming and Streams Microliths to Microsystems What do you have to get right before you start trying to deploy a distributed systems? Working with ML / AI at Lightbend to understand tracing through distributed system Saga Pattern More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ http://bit.ly/2kwB2eB You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq