So You Want To Be an Actor? Lessons From Implementing The Actor Model

It's been a few years since our system based on the actor model has been deployed in production. Like every software system, it's undergoing continuous changes. It is now running in a cluster, and we have redesigned its persistence layer. Did we make the right choice with the actor model? (Spoler: we did). What was hard to achieve? What would we have done differently today? Come to this talk to learn from our experience.