Improv

Improv is a multi-language actor framework for handling asynchronous distributed systems in a simple and efficient way. It is designed to be used in a microservices architecture, but it can be used in any kind of distributed system.

Improv is based on HTTP/2. It uses HTTP/2 for communication between actors, and it uses HTTP/2 for communication between modules and services. This allows you to build distributed systems that are efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant.

Features

• Simple: Improv is designed to be simple and easy to use. It is based on the actor model, which is a simple and powerful model for handling concurrency.
• Efficient: Improv is designed to be efficient. It is based on the actor model, which is a lightweight model for handling concurrency.
• Scalable: Improv is designed to be scalable. It is based on the actor model, which is a scalable model for handling concurrency.
• Fault-tolerant: Improv is designed to be fault-tolerant. It is based on the actor model, which is a fault-tolerant model for handling concurrency.
• Distributed: Improv is designed to be distributed. It is based on the actor model, which is a distributed model for handling concurrency.
• Multi-language: Improv is designed to be multi-language. It is based on the actor model, which is a multi-language model for handling concurrency.
• Secure: Improv is designed with security in mind (it's not perfect). All messages are encrypted with AES by default, however it can be disabled. Only the actor that receives the message can decrypt it.
• Open-source: Improv is open-source. You can use it for free and contribute to its development.

Inspiration

Before you decide if you want to use Improv, you should know what went into it's development.

First and foremost, you must know, that Improv is inspired by the actor model. The actor model is a model of concurrent computation that treats actors as the universal primitives of concurrent computation. In response to a message that it receives, an actor can make local decisions, create more actors, send more messages, and determine how to respond to the next message received. Actors may modify their own private state, but can only affect each other indirectly through messages (avoiding the need for any locks).

The actor model has been around for a long time, and it has been used in many different systems. It is a simple and powerful model for handling concurrency, and it is well-suited for building distributed systems.

Improv is inspired by the actor model, but it is not a direct implementation of it. Instead, Improv is a multi-language framework that is designed to make it easy to build distributed systems using the actor model.

This allows you to build distributed systems in a simple and efficient way, without having to worry about the low-level details of concurrency and distributed systems.

You are able to divide each actor into modules and services. This allows you to build complex systems in a modular way, and to reuse code across different actors.

Improv is designed to allow you to truly use the right tool for the job. Divide your system into actors and modules and use the right language for each part of your system. This allows you to build systems that are efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant, without having to compromise on the language that you use.

Improv is inspired by the following projects:

• Akka: Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
• Actix: Actix is a powerful, pragmatic, and extremely fast web framework for Rust.

Getting started

Pick a language

Improv is a multi-language framework. You can use it in any language that you like. Here are some of the languages that Improv supports:

• Rust
• Python
• Go
• TypeScript
• Zig (maybe if I decide to learn it.)

Install Improv

To install Improv, you need to install the Improv package for your language. Here are the installation instructions for each language: