Erlang/OTP seems the most important middleware the author of this post probably hasn't heard of ... there isn't even a single mention of it while mentioned all the things copied from it (supervisors for ex)
> Akka is designed to be bulletproof. ... It’s actually very hard to write a system using Akka that isn’t fault tolerant.
That is why you use something battle tested, build from ground up concurrent platform -- Erlang/OTP, not some new fangled experimental library.
The only way Akka is interesting if you _need_ to access Java libraries and there is just no other way.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 11.7 ms ] thread> Akka is designed to be bulletproof. ... It’s actually very hard to write a system using Akka that isn’t fault tolerant.
That is why you use something battle tested, build from ground up concurrent platform -- Erlang/OTP, not some new fangled experimental library.
The only way Akka is interesting if you _need_ to access Java libraries and there is just no other way.