SignalR is a nice framework for broadcasting messages to all clients connected to your web server. It also provides mechanisms to allow those clients to send messages to other clients. It’s not “Angular friendly” out of the box, though, since it’s designed more for use with (imho) jQuery. Here’s a simple service that I like to use with SignalR and Angular
Integrating SignalR with Angular
posted on November 23, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, SignalR
Implementing the Actor pattern with Akka
posted on November 9, 2015 by long2know in Akka, ASP.NET
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking at what it takes to create a distributed computing system. The idea of using the Actor model / Actor pattern came up and it is a concept that seems to fit nicely. What is the Actor pattern then?
From Wikipedia, it’s described as such:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
Here’s another concise definition:
An actor object is used when you have a long running task and some code that needs to be executed after it completes. This kind of object is given the information it needs to perform the task and callbacks to execute when that task is done. The actor runs on its own thread without any further input and is destroyed when it is finished.
How does one go about implementing the actor pattern, though?