June 2016
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
8h 6m
English
Reliable Actors API: Actors were introduced in the 1970s to deal with concurrent computation problems in parallel and distributed computing systems to simplify programming. From a logical point of view, actors are isolated, single-threaded, and independent units of compute and state.
Concurrency Problems
In computer sciences, the dining philosophers’ problem is a great example to illustrate concurrency and synchronization issues that can be solved using actors. Wikipedia has a good article on this subject at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dining_philosophers_problem, which is worth reading if someone is not familiar with those ...
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