Ultra-fast, distributed, cross-platform actors. This is the Kotlin repository for Proto.Actor.
It's used in production but doesn't have the same adoption and stability as the C# and Go implementations.
./gradlew build
Minimalistic API - The API should be small and easy to use. Avoid enterprisey containers and configurations.
Build on existing technologies - There are already a lot of great technologies for e.g. networking and clustering. Build on those instead of reinventing them. E.g. gRPC streams for networking, Consul for clustering.
Pass data, not objects - Serialization is an explicit concern - don't try to hide it. Protobuf all the way.
Be fast - Do not trade performance for magic API trickery.
Inprocess Ping-Pong results:
Dispatcher Elapsed Msg/sec
300 273 116885925
400 217 147426522
500 150 213037390
600 85 375979638
700 87 364621820
800 83 381552772 <-- 380+ mil msg/sec
Dependencies
The best place currently for learning how to use Proto.Actor is the examples.
build.gradle.kts
repositories {
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
implementation("actor.proto:proto-actor:latest.release")
}
App.kt
import actor.proto.*
fun main() {
val prop = fromFunc { msg ->
when (msg) {
is Started -> println("Started")
is String -> {
println("Hello $msg")
stop(self)
}
is Stopping -> println("Stopping")
is Stopped -> println("Stopped")
else -> println("Unknown message $msg")
}
}
val pid = spawn(prop)
send(pid, "Proto.Actor")
readLine()
}
Stable release are published to https://bintray.com/asynkronit/protoactor-kotlin and linked to jcenter. Anyone of the repositories below will do.
repositories {
maven("https://dl.bintray.com/asynkronit/protoactor-kotlin")
}
repositories {
jcenter()
}
Commits on the master branch are deployed as snapshots to https://oss.jfrog.org/artifactory/oss-snapshot-local/actor/proto/ and can be consumed by adding the following configuration to your gradle file:
repositories {
repositories {
maven { url 'http://oss.jfrog.org/artifactory/oss-snapshot-local' }
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'actor.proto:proto-actor:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT'
}
When a tag is created e.g. v0.1.0 Travis will build and publish the packages to Bintray.
Many thanks to JetBrains for support!
Also thanks to ej-technologies.com for their Java profiler - JProfiler