Hendy Irawan's List: Actor model

"programming where the primary activity is reaction to receipt of semantically significant signals (aka 'events')."

Akka is the platform for the next generation event-driven, scalable and fault-tolerant architectures on the JVM

We believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction.

Akka is here to change that.

Using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory we raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications.

For fault-tolerance we adopt the "Let it crash" / "Embrace failure" model which have been used with great success in the telecom industry to build applications that self-heal, systems that never stop.

Actors also provides the abstraction for transparent distribution and the basis for truly scalable and fault-tolerant applications.

Akka is Open Source and available under the Apache 2 License.

"A general model of concurrent computation developed by CarlHewitt, HenryBaker and GulAgha (also "actor model"). Several ActorLanguages are based on this model.

Actors are autonomous and concurrent objects which execute asynchronously. The actors model provides flexible mechanisms for building parallel and distributed software systems. "