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0 pointskillingtime745y ago0 comments

For that we have cluster management like kubernetes

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An actor can fail for reasons other than infrastructure issues. i.e.: unhandled exceptions.

In fact, unhandled exceptions are encouraged (i.e.: "let it crash" approach to fault tolerance).

Sure, but that’s almost entirely local within a process, where regular Akka processes would work.

So, in the system I worked with, individual applications were Akka powered and cross-process/cross-vm communication was done through queues

halfmatthalfcat5y ago

With Cluster + Sharding you can have zero(ish) downtime though when you scale horizontally. Messages sent to Sharded actors are buffered if their nodes ever go down and things will just resume as normal.

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tunesmith5y ago

What if you have a message that is specifically for another actor that may or may not be on the same server?

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29athrowaway5y ago

An actor can fail for reasons other than infrastructure issues. i.e.: unhandled exceptions.

In fact, unhandled exceptions are encouraged (i.e.: "let it crash" approach to fault tolerance).

t-writescode5y ago

Sure, but that’s almost entirely local within a process, where regular Akka processes would work.

So, in the system I worked with, individual applications were Akka powered and cross-process/cross-vm communication was done through queues

halfmatthalfcat5y ago

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tunesmith5y ago

What if you have a message that is specifically for another actor that may or may not be on the same server?

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