User Guide

User Guide

Table Of Contents

Overview

1. Features
2. What is Dempsy?
3. What Problem is Dempsy solving?
4. Features
5. What is a Distributed Actor Framework?
6. What Dempsy Is Not
7. Guiding Philosophy
8. How does Dempsy compare with the alternatives?

Prerequisites

Simple Example

1. What does a Dempsy application look like
2. The Message Processor Prototype
3. Message Processor Addressing
4. Adaptors
5. Application Definition
6. Running the Dempsy application

Terminology

Developing Applications With Dempsy

1. The Application Developer Api
   1. The Message Processor Lifecycle
   2. Activation and Passivation
   3. Non-stream Driven Message Processor Output
   4. Pre-Instantiation of Message Processors
   5. Eviction - Transient Message Processors
2. Deployment and Configuration
   1. Distributed Deployment
   2. Application Definition
   3. Serialization Configuration and Tuning
   4. Monitoring
   5. Executor Configuration
   6. [Message Routing and Microsharding](Message Routing and Microsharding)
   7. Transport
   8. Dynamic Topology
   9. Homogeneous Deployment
   10. Elasticity and Fail-over
3. The Framework Developer Api
4. The Dempsy Implementation

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