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A comment on Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant Runtime for Rust.

Re:Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant R... by qeternity on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:39PM (#26309456)
I've read the readme, and still not entirely clear. I know it's not a 1:1 analogy but it this effectively a distributed task queue?
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Re:Bastion – A Highly-Available Distributed Fault-Tolerant R... by echelon on Monday March 01, 2021 @05:49PM (#26309554)
It looks like an Erlang-inspired Actor system, but I've never had any experience with this type of programming model, so I don't know what its benefits are.

It'd be nice to have a few code snippets geared at newbies in the README as well as a pointer to blog posts explaining why actor-based systems are great.

I want to investigate this, but I don't have the time to research any of this right now, and none of that information is right in front of me.

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