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Re:Eventual Consistency in Real-time Web Apps by mantraxB on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @10:07AM (#7904467)
Actors.
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Re:Eventual Consistency in Real-time Web Apps by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @10:13AM (#7904503)
Actors says nothing about consistency; you have to do it all on your own. Basically a non solution in this area.
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Re:Eventual Consistency in Real-time Web Apps by jburwell on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @11:17AM (#7910573)
+1. Actors are simply a unit of concurrency and means of communication between those units. Their scope and division of labor, as well as, the associated communication protocols are left to developer. They provide no inherent consistency guarantees.
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