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Microservices with Azure
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Microservices with Azure

by Namit Tanasseri, Rahul Rai
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
10h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reliable Actors

You must be familiar with the object-oriented programming paradigm which models problems as a number of interacting objects that contain some data which forms the state of the object. The Actor model of computation breaks down problems into a number of Actors which can function independently and interact with each other by messaging.

The Service Fabric Reliable Actors API provides a high-level abstraction for modelling your Microservices as a number of interacting Actors. This framework is based on the Virtual Actor pattern, which was invented by the Microsoft research team and was released with the  codename Orleans.

The Actor pattern has been implemented in multiple languages through various frameworks such as Akka.NET, ...
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ISBN: 9781787121140