Type-safe & high-perf distributed actor systems with Rust
summary
Claims a working Rust runtime that handles millions of actors and passed messages across cores and machines, with a live Citybound prototype showing 100,000 cars (scaling to ~1M population) running smooth. Uses an additional code-generating build script using syn and quote to desugar type-safe remote calls and enable trait-based dynamic dispatch. Built a minimal actor runtime (Kay), demonstrated single‑process high‑perf batching and a two‑laptop distributed demo over Wi‑Fi with slight hiccups but functional real‑time synchronization.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:45A short history
- 12:24New freedoms
- 24:34API design iterations
- 30:14Success!
- 30:33Lessons Learned
- 31:20Consider Actor Systems
- 32:51Build cool stuff
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