How Temporal differs to Akka and Lagom? Im looking forward on building more microservices but I’m still stuck on which stack to use. Asking for a channel. cc @maxim @samar

[image] Steven_Sun: Akka and Lagom cc @SergeyBykov since you seems to be an expert on Akka!

I see multiple dimensions here. So, it’s not easy to condense the differences into a short summary. I think the most fundamental difference is that Temporal provides an abstraction of a persistent call stack. Every step of a business process is transparently persisted by the server, so that it can …

Thank you Sergey for the proper reply

[image] SergeyBykov: So, it’s not easy to condense the differences into a short summary. With Temporal mentioning Actors as a primary use case, do you have sample application code to look at? I didn’t see much documentation other than the just the mention on the Use Cases page.

A workflow is a durable actor with all its state fully preserved. It can receive requests in form of signals and queries. Do you have a specific use case in mind?

Yes, I have described my use case and just gave a follow-up based on your feedback (thanks heaps!). I intend to use Domain-Driven Design and that combines really well with an Actor Model. Vaugn Vernon presented a lot of information on such an architecture design. But where he advocates to turn doma…

Maybe some blog posts like “Temporal and Actor System” or “Actors: Temporal vs. Akka” would be enlightening for prospects checking your product. I agree that a more visible comparison to Actors would be helpful for some newcomers. In my experience, Actors has been an ever-present paradigm, but a…

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cc @SergeyBykov since you seems to be an expert on Akka!

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