anthdm/hollywood

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2325 stars · 179 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Hollywood is a fast, lightweight actor model engine for Go, supporting local and clustered distributed actors with guaranteed message delivery. It uses dRPC and optimized protobufs as transport and targets low-latency, high-throughput workloads.

Use cases

• build a game server with concurrent actors in Go
• write a low-latency trading engine
• implement fault-tolerant microservices with the actor model
• run distributed self-discovering actor clusters
• handle millions of messages per second between actors
• build an advertising broker backend

When to choose

• you need extremely high message throughput and low latency in Go
• you want lightweight actor semantics with clustering support
• you need WASM compatibility for actor-based code
• you want guaranteed delivery on actor failure

When to avoid

• you need a mature ecosystem like Akka with years of production hardening
• you only need simple background job queues rather than actor messaging
• your stack is not Go
• you need rich supervision and persistence features out of the box

Facets

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concurrency rpc message-queue microservices microservices backend performance go windows wasm actor-model actor-framework low-latency cluster fault-tolerance drpc protobuf real-time linux macos

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