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Profiling actor utilization and communication in Akka

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Chen, Lydia Y. Rosà, Andrea Binder, Walter
Abstract	Several programming languages and frameworks offer actor-based concurrency inspired by Erlang. Among them, Akka has been adopted in numerous applications and frameworks running on the Java Virtual Machine. Unfortunately, despite the spread of Akka-based applications, there are few dedicated profilers. In this paper, we aim at filling this gap by presenting a novel profiling tool for Akka applications. In contrast to existing profilers for Akka, our tool focuses particularly on actor utilization and on the communication between them. We evaluate our tool on various applications and frameworks in both parallel and distributed settings, such as Signal/Collect, Apache Spark and Apache Flink. Our results show that our profiler helps understanding actor utilization, investigating load balancing in computing frameworks, and analyzing communication performance in the message exchange process. .
Starting Page	24
Ending Page	32
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450344319
DOI	10.1145/2975969.2975972
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2016-09-23
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Parallel and dis- tributed applications Performance evaluation and optimization Actor model Profiling tools Akka
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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