Goakt

Abstract

1. Introduction

GoAkt is a distributed actor framework for Go, inspired by Erlang and Akka. In development since 2022 and used in production, it lets you build responsive, resilient, and elastic systems with typed actor messages, running as a single process or a cluster of nodes behind the same API.

Teams use GoAkt for event processing, IoT and edge workloads, real-time platforms, and distributed backends that would otherwise need a message broker plus custom coordination code.

See goakt.dev for an overview and the documentation for the full feature reference.

2. Objective

[Go]Distributed Actor/Grain framework for Golang with goodies

This project demonstrates how Go can be applied to a real-world Blockchain & Cloud Computing problem.

4. Technology Stack

5. System Requirements

General requirements for this technology stack — check the README for exact versions.

• Go 1.20 or later
• Git (to clone the repository)

6. Installation & Setup

git clone https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt.git
cd goakt

go get github.com/tochemey/goakt/v4

Full setup instructions are in the project README.

7. Future Enhancements

Suggested extensions you can add to make this your own project.

• Add a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions
• Deploy to a public test network or cloud free tier
• Add monitoring and cost alerts

8. Viva / Review Questions

Common questions examiners ask for projects in this domain.

1. Why does this problem need a blockchain or cloud-native design?
2. Explain the smart contract / infrastructure components and how they interact.
3. How are gas costs or cloud costs kept under control?
4. How is the system secured (keys, IAM, access control)?
5. How would the solution scale to many more users?

9. Source Code & License

This project is developed by Tochemey and published on GitHub under the MIT License. Please follow the license terms and credit the original author when you use or modify this code.