Orleans virtual actors in Go

Currently, this is a science project, do not use for anything important at the moment.

What is this?

This is an experiment to build an implementation of the Orleans actor model in Go as opposed to in C# / .NET.

Quickstart(-ish) for the brave

Pre-requisites:

• Go 1.19
• PostgreSQL (local or in container)
• Redis (local or in container)

1. Build binaries via go build in cmd/silod/, cmd/client/ and cmd/reminder/
2. Create a postgres database and load the schema from etc/schema.sql
3. Create a .env file in cmd/silod/ with the following contents (changed for your environment):

DATABASE_URL=postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/database
REDIS_HOST_PORT=localhost:6379

4. Run three instances of silod (from ./cmd/silod) (mimic the Procfile or use overmind start if you have it installed) to have three nodes running
5. Run CLUSTER_HOST=localhost CLUSTER_PORT=8091 ./client (from ./cmd/client) in another terminal to run against the first node
6. Run CLUSTER_HOST=localhost CLUSTER_PORT=8092 ./reminder (from ./cmd/reminder) in another terminal (optional) to register reminders against the second node