Distributed Actors in OCaml
summary
Delivered a working actors-ocaml library that uses OCaml 5 features (shared-memory parallelism and algebraic effect handlers) to create, call and await remote futures across nodes, with a PPX-based metadata generator that produces mock classes and descriptors for actor sharing. Runtime centralizes network IO in a single proxy thread per node and maps remote calls to local futures. Examples and code are available, but the system requires explicit type annotations for serialization and has minimal error recovery.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Distributed actors in OCaml
- 0:45Actor model in programming
- 2:12Defining actors in OCaml
- 4:01Extending to distributed systems
- 5:26Remote method calls
- 7:17Secure actor sharing
- 9:48Runtime system architecture
- 10:50Compile-time reflection
- 12:14Library summary and limits
- 13:39Q&A error handling
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