Implementing Azure: Putting Modern DevOps to Use

The Actor proxy

The Reliable Actors client API provides communication between an Actor instance and an Actor client. To communicate with an Actor, a client creates an Actor proxy object that implements the Actor interface. The client interacts with the Actor by invoking methods on the proxy object. The Actor proxy can be used for client-to-Actor and actor-to-Actor communication. An Actor proxy requires Actor ID and application name to identify the Actor it should connect to. The proxy does not expose the actual Actor location, which is important because the location of the Actor instance can change from time to time for reasons such as cluster node failure. Another important thing to consider is that Actors are required to be idempotent since ...