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GoAkt is built for systems that are concurrent, stateful, and expected to survive failure. This page maps common workloads to the framework features that carry them, so you can judge the fit before writing code.

Distributed systems and microservices

  • Stateful microservices: keep state next to the compute with actors or grains and scale horizontally across a cluster, instead of round-tripping to a cache on every request.
  • Long-lived processes: model workflows that outlive a single request; supervision restarts failed actors and relocation moves them when a node leaves the cluster.
  • Service-to-service messaging: exchange typed messages asynchronously with location transparency; the caller does not care which process or node handles them.
  • Event-driven architectures: build event sourcing and CQRS on eGo, which uses GoAkt for execution, supervision, clustering, and remoting.

Real-time systems

  • Financial market data: fan price updates, risk checks, and order flow across routers with per-instrument actors serializing access to hot state.
  • Gaming servers: give each player session its own actor or grain; passivation reclaims memory when sessions go idle.
  • IoT and edge computing: represent each device as a digital twin grain, activated on first message and addressable from anywhere in the cluster.
  • Chat and presence: distribute conversations and notifications over PubSub topics that work the same in standalone and cluster mode.

High-performance data processing

  • Stream processing: run fraud detection, anomaly tracking, and alerting pipelines on streams backed by actor concurrency.
  • ETL pipelines: spread batch workloads across worker actors with work pulling, so fast workers take more of the load and slow ones are never overwhelmed.
  • Event-driven analytics: subscribe actors to live event streams and compute on demand as events arrive.

Fault-tolerant systems

  • Self-healing applications: supervision trees restart failing components with directives, restart budgets, and exponential backoff, while the rest of the system keeps serving.
  • High availability: a cluster redistributes actors from a lost node to healthy peers through relocation, without an operator in the loop.
  • Replicated state: share counters, sets, and maps across nodes with conflict-free distributed data types that converge without coordination.

Workflow orchestration and automation

  • Business processes: automate approval chains, payments, and order fulfilment as actors that hold each case’s state; eGo adds saga orchestration when steps span services.
  • Background jobs: schedule one-shot and recurring work with the built-in scheduler, and let supervision handle retries.
  • Workflow engines: model multi-step processes with behaviors that switch the message handler as the process advances, and stashing to defer messages that arrive too early.

Security and threat detection

  • Intrusion detection: process log and telemetry streams in real time, one actor per source, and escalate suspicious activity through the actor hierarchy.
  • Bot and DDoS mitigation: throttle abusive traffic with per-client actors that count, rate-limit, and expire through passivation.
  • Transaction validation: run validation and consensus steps as isolated actors so one poisoned input cannot corrupt shared state.

AI and machine learning

  • Distributed training coordination: coordinate workers across a cluster with actor-based scheduling and reliable point-to-point delivery.
  • Real-time inference serving: pool model workers behind routers and keep tail latency down with one request in flight per worker.
  • Multi-agent systems: give every agent an actor with private state, a mailbox, and supervision; agents collaborate by exchanging typed messages.

AI agents and MCP servers

Actors map naturally onto agent runtimes: an agent is a unit of state, memory, and autonomy that talks to peers through messages.
  • Agent coordination: spawn one actor per agent and let the actor hierarchy express delegation and oversight.
  • Tool orchestration: manage concurrent MCP tools, databases, APIs, and knowledge sources as child actors, each supervised independently.
  • Conversation management: hold each conversation in a grain that activates on the first message and passivates when the user goes quiet.
  • Agent swarms: distribute reasoning across a cluster where agents delegate tasks to peers with location-transparent messaging.
  • Resilient pipelines: supervision restarts a failed stage and PipeTo feeds async results back into the flow.

Where to start

Work through Quickstart for the local flow, then add remoting or clustering when you need more than one process. The examples repository has runnable projects for each mode.