The open-source project ActorSrcGen (Nuget) has recently undergone significant updates that help streamline the development of complex long-lived pipe

Announcing ActorSrcGen 1.1.2

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2024-05-09 03:00:06

The open-source project ActorSrcGen (Nuget) has recently undergone significant updates that help streamline the development of complex long-lived pipeline processes for C# developers. These changes enhance the existing model to provide an easy approach towards the incorporation of multiple message pumps to feed data into the high-performance pipeline code that was a feature of previous versions.

The open-source project ActorSrcGen (Nuget) has recently undergone significant updates to help streamline the development of complex long-lived pipeline processes for C# developers. These changes enhance the existing model providing an easy approach to creating multiple message pumps feeding data into your high-performance pipelines.

I use this system for the development of large scale IoT telemetry ingestion pipelines, where performance, and resilience are vital. The fact that you can structure your code to use a small set of simple, self-contained methods, with minimal interaction between them, makes the code simpler to read and easier to test.

The latest release of ActorSrcGen introduce a new programming model that simplifies the creation of dataflow compatible pipelines. This model leverages the Task Parallel Library (TPL) Dataflow to convert simple C# classes into robust, actor-based systems. The beauty of this approach lies in its simplicity: developers can now define a series of steps within a class, and ActorSrcGen will automatically generate the boilerplate code necessary to wire these methods together into a cohesive dataflow pipeline.