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ServiceActor

This is a .NET library that implements a basic actor model to handle concurrent access to services

Article on Medium

https://codeburst.io/introducing-serviceactor-multi-threading-lock-free-net-library-based-on-actor-model-b4f20b47fe57

What is ServiceActor?

ServiceActor goal is to simplify multithreading/concurrent access to services using an Actor-like model without requiring the project to be completely rewritten or designed from the start using an Actor model paradigm.

What ServiceActor is not

ServiceActor doesn't aim to be a full Actor model like Akka.Net or Orleans: actually, it can be even compared to those frameworks! So if you're looking for a pure Actor model infrastructure I would point you to one of those frameworks.

Main ServiceActor goals

• Makes concurrent access to services lock-free and straightforward
• Should not require a complete rewrite of your service code
• Should be "pluggable": i.e. should be possible to use ServiceActor only for a portion of your system
• Should be async/await friendly
• Should be easily adopted in projects that deliver services using a DI frameworks
• Should be possible to gracefully handle exceptions in services managing custom recover policies (not yet realized)

Main ServiceActor non-goals

• Services should be accessible in the same process memory (not like pure Actors that are instead location unaware)