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Actors or Not: Async Event Architectures

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Summary

Yaroslav Tkachenko discusses two approaches to an asynchronous event-based architecture. The first is a "classic" style protocol that they've been implementing at Demonware (Activision) for Call of Duty back-end services. The second is an actor-based approach in place at Bench Accounting. He explores the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned architecting both Actor and Non-Actor systems.

Bio

Yaroslav Tkachenko is a software engineer interested in distributed systems, microservices, functional programming, modern cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. Currently he is a Senior Software Engineer at Demonware, working on a large-scale data pipeline. Prior to joining Demonware he held various leadership roles in multiple startups.

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May 26, 2018

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