Involving Concurrency with Actors and the Actix Crate

This chapter will show an alternative approach to creating microservices based on the actors model (like Erlang or Akka). This approach allows you to write clear and effective code by splitting a microservice into small independent tasks that interact with each other by message passing.

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to do the following:

• Create a microservice using the Actix framework and the actix-web crate
• Create middleware for the Actix Web framework