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Microservices with Azure

You're reading from   Microservices with Azure Build highly maintainable and scalable enterprise-grade apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121140
Length 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Part 1 – Laying The Foundation
Part 2 – Microsoft Azure Service Fabric
Part 3 – Microservice Architecture Patterns
Part 4 – Supplementary Learning
1. Microservices – Getting to Know the Buzzword FREE CHAPTER 2. Microsoft Azure Platform and Services Primer 3. Understanding Azure Service Fabric 4. Hands-on with Service Fabric – Guest Executables 5. Hands on with Service Fabric – Reliable Services 6. Reliable Actors 7. Microservices Architecture Patterns Motivation 8. Microservices Architectural Patterns 9. Securing and Managing Your Microservices 10. Diagnostics and Monitoring 11. Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment 12. Serverless Microservices

Actor lifetime


Unlike Actor implementation on other platforms, such as Akka.net (https://petabridge.com/bootcamp/), Service Fabric Actors are virtual. What this means is that the Service Fabric Reliable Actors runtime manages the location and activation of Actor instances. The Reliable Actors runtime automatically activates an Actor the first time it receives a request for that Actor ID. If an Actor instance remains unused for a period of time, the Reliable Actors runtime garbage-collects the in-memory object. The Reliable Actors runtime also maintains knowledge of the Actor's existence in the state manager for any future Actor reactivations. Actor instances are activated only when the runtime receives a message that is intended to be served by the Actor. If a message is sent to the Actor instance and there is no activation of that Actor on any cluster node, then the runtime will pick a node and create a new activation there.

Every Actor has a unique identifier and calling any Actor method...

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