wasmCloud
Akka
wasmCloud | Akka | |
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7 | 33 | |
1,266 | 12,931 | |
4.0% | 0.2% | |
10.0 | 9.4 | |
5 days ago | 4 days ago | |
Rust | Scala | |
Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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wasmCloud
- Wasmcloud 1.0 Release Notes
- CNCF WasmCloud 1.0
- Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
- Need some help for writing WebAssembly module in Rust
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What's your experience with FaaS and Rust?
There’s a lot more to go into there, but you may find https://wasmcloud.dev interesting 🙂
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Are there any open source Elixir projects that I could help with as a beginner?
The wasmCloud project (https://wasmcloud.dev) has a number of areas where people can contribute. As someone else said, you can filter on "good first issue" to get an idea for what needs doing.
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The Missing Kubernetes Type System
Webassembly is also gaining steam for server workloads due to several advantages (less overhead, better capability based security, composability, ...).
See Spin [1], Wasmcloud [2], Lunatic [3], etc.
My system is based on a distributed Webassembly runtime.
The reason for taking inspiration from Kubernetes is making deployment of distributed workloads on that runtime easy.
A nice benefit for a Kubernetes alike system is that the equivalent to controllers can be much more light-weight WASM actors that are easier to deploy and scale.
[1] https://github.com/fermyon/spin
[2] https://github.com/wasmCloud/wasmCloud
[3] https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/lunatic
Akka
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Modern Async Primitives on iOS, Android, and the Web
Kotlin also has a construct for asynchronous collections/streams. Kotlin's version of AsyncSequence is called a Flow. Just as Swift's AsyncSequence builds upon prior experience with RxSwift and Combine, Kotlin's Flow APIs build upon earlier stream/collection APIs in the JVM ecosystem: Java's RxJava, Java8 Streams, Project Reactor, and Scala's Akka.
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What are the current hot topics in type theory and static analysis?
First-class distributed and multicore computing. Swift has first-class “actors” and “distributed” methods. Unison, Erlang, and Elixir are built with distributed being one of the #1 concerns. Though first-class is not super common and I don't really expect it to be because usually libraries are enough (e.g. Scala has Akka and is used WIDELY for distributed); whereas something like linear types and typed effects, you can't emulate in a library.
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Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
Akka is a library that implements the actor model for JVM languages. Mainly in Scala, but you can use it in Java too, and maybe others. It doesn't feel as ergonomic as Elixir, but if Elixir is too "out there" for the decision makers in your case, this might be a friendlier alternative.
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Kalix: Move to the Cloud. Extend to the Edge. Go Beyond.
Kalix builds on the lessons we have learned from more than a decade of building Akka (leveraging the actor model) and our experience helping large (and small) enterprises move to the cloud and use it in the most time, cost, and resource-efficient way possible.
- Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
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About Elixir and the microservices architecture
Note Akka, the Java & friends framework, is working with the actor model and have as main inspiration Erlang to mimic some features of the BEAM on top of the JVM.
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I have lots of downtime at work, is there anything I can do online to make extra money?
Looking back at real dates, I started learning the language (Scala) back in 2008 because it was something new and trendy that interested me. I started spending some serious time with it in 2009 (helping out other newcomers and making small contributions to various projects), and then in 2010 became a core contributor to the Akka project (you can find me a little ways down this list: https://github.com/akka/akka/graphs/contributors). For the most part I worked on the features I wanted to, but worked on other things if a user asked nicely. Akka became very popular in the early 2010s, so all of a sudden I had highly sought after skills. Got hired by a London based company and moved myself and my family from Canada over here. But even today, that exposure I got 10 years ago still helps me to land new contracts.
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FogBugz Goes Dark
In the open source world, Akka, the most popular actor system library in the JVM ecosystem, that’s heavily used in tonnes of open source projects, recently went from “free and open source” to “paid/proprietary and source available.” https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/31561
Same strategy - the pricing is insanely high (for a library), and the project is effectively dead now, but it’ll take some larger enterprises awhile to move away from.
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Akka will no longer be Open Source
Lightbend, the company owning Akka, recently shared a blog post signed by the CEO announcing a license change from Apache 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1, a proprietary license. You can already find it in this PR, merged a couple days ago.
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Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
Akka 2.6 is on the open source Apache license, that is unchanged (its not possible for Lightbend to change an existing license). Its only the new Akka 2.7 which has the BSL license, so as long as you don't upgrade you are fine. See https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/31561.
What are some alternatives?
spin - Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
lunatic - Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper
shuttle - Build & ship backends without writing any infrastructure files.
Hazelcast - Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.
capability-providers - wasmCloud official capability providers
Hystrix - Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.
riker - Easily build efficient, highly concurrent and resilient applications. An Actor Framework for Rust.
JGroups - The JGroups project
workers-rs - Write Cloudflare Workers in 100% Rust via WebAssembly
Lagom - Reactive Microservices for the JVM