Hi there!

Welcome to our in-progress effort to write a book about the Actor model.

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Acknowledging that everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, we graciously thank folks in the Free/Open Source Software community for their tireless efforts and continuing commitment.

Thanks for reading!

Love,

Jonathan E. Magen and Matthew Ping

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: What is the Actor model?

Part 2: Patterns derived from outside inspiration

Part 3: Novel patterns

Part 4: Distributed processing with remoting

Part 5: Big CSV case study

Conclusion

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