What is Protoactor?
It is a Next generation Actor Model framework. It introduces "Actor Standard Protocol", a predefined contract of base primitives which can be consumed by different language implementations. This is a game changer in the field of actor systems, you are now free to pick and choose languages for your different actor based microservices in a way never seen before.
Protoactor is a tool in the Concurrency Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Protoactor is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Protoactor's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Protoactor?
Companies
Developers
5 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Protoactor.
Protoactor's Features
- Simple Concurrency & Distribution
- Extreme Performance
- Resilient by Design
- Built on standards
Protoactor Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Protoactor?
RxJS
RxJS is a library for reactive programming using Observables, to make it easier to compose asynchronous or callback-based code. This project is a rewrite of Reactive-Extensions/RxJS with better performance, better modularity, better debuggable call stacks, while staying mostly backwards compatible, with some breaking changes that reduce the API surface.
Akka
Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
Netty
Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.
Finagle
Finagle is an extensible RPC system for the JVM, used to construct high-concurrency servers. Finagle implements uniform client and server APIs for several protocols, and is designed for high performance and concurrency.
Orleans
Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.
