apify/actor-whitepaper
This whitepaper describes a new concept for building serverless microapps called Actors, which are easy to develop, share, integrate, and build upon. Actors are a reincarnation of the UNIX philosophy for programs running in the cloud.
This whitepaper introduces Actors, a new way for developers to build serverless microapps. These microapps, essentially programs packaged as Docker images, take a defined JSON input and produce a JSON output after performing a specific action. Software developers, especially those creating web scrapers, automation tools, or AI agents, would use this to build reusable and easily shareable tools.
Use this if you are a software developer looking for a standardized, language-agnostic model to build, share, and integrate cloud-based automation and data processing tools easily.
Not ideal if you are looking for a specific software tool to solve an end-user problem, rather than a framework for building such tools.
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