Reactive Applications with Akka.NET

Chapter 11. Storing actor state with Akka.Persistence

This chapter covers

• Adding a persistent backing data store to an actor to save its state
• The concepts behind event sourcing
• Creating evolvable applications using Akka.Persistence and event sourcing

Throughout the book so far, you’ve developed a wide variety of actors designed to operate in a number of different scenarios—both small, isolated actors and larger systems such as e-commerce applications. All these actors share a common trait: they exist as an abstraction over the top of application memory. Although actors incorporate desirable attributes such as message queues, processing, and state, the primary purpose of an actor system is to support concurrent workloads ...