2021-06-08 EDIT: Added serializer implementation using only the actor message-event queue. One of the earliest concepts explored on this blog was the Serializer, which is a mechanism for providing exclusive access to a group of actors [1]. More recently, Carl Hewitt has referred to an extended version of this mechanism (with holes) as “Swiss Cheese”. […]
10
Aug
2020
Serializers Revisited
Tags: actor, atomic, cell, cheese, composition, continuation, lazy-initialization, queue, serializer, state-machine, synchronization, transaction