How Actor model/Actors run in clusters facilitating asynchronous communication in distributed systems
This blog post is a continuation of my previous post on understanding the actor model to build non-blocking, high-throughput distributed systems. If you haven’t read it, I suggest giving it a read here. Various Actor model frameworks, like Akka, ProtoActor, Actix, etc., have cluster implementations…
Understanding the Actor model to build non-blocking, high-throughput distributed systems
Imagine a scenario where on an e-commerce site, ‘n’ users are concurrently competing to buy a product limited in number. Multiple requests (in the form of multiple threads) would compete to purchase a certain product. Here is a product purchase code snippet that’ll help us…
‘Futures and Promises’ and how Instagram leverages it for better resource utilization
Futures and Promises is a concept that enables a process to execute asynchronously, improving performance and resource consumption. It can be applied in multiple contexts, such as in request-response in a web service call, long-running computations, database queries, remote procedure calls, interservice communication in distributed…
McDonald’s Event-Driven Architecture – A Gist
McDonald’s uses events across their distributed architecture for use cases such as asynchronous, transactional and analytical processing, including mobile-order progress tracking and sending marketing offers like deals and promotions to their customers. As opposed to building event streaming solutions for every individual or a set…
State of Backend #2 – Disney+ Hotstar Replaced Redis and Elasticsearch with ScyllaDB. Here’s Why.
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