Classification
2- Complexity
- Medium
- Impact area
- Technical
A model for concurrent and distributed systems that represents isolated, stateful actors which interact solely via asynchronous messages.
360° overview
Six perspectives place the building block in context. The numbers show where each perspective continues in the reading path.
The building block at a glance
Actor Model
360°
Integrations
actor runtime
+2
Agents or components run as independent actors: each owns its private state, processes one message at a time from its mailbox, and can spawn further actors — so there is no shared-memory contention and a crash is contained to a single actor.
Value stream stage: Build