CBOR serialization in Goakt V4

Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Even though Goakt has always been a great technology for me to adopt, I was always reluctant to use it in my application because writing and managing Protobuf files wasn’t feel really elegant for my use cases (skill issue). Competing libraries like Ergo & Hollywood allows you to use actor without writing Protobuf files.

Fortunately, in Goakt v4, the author has added a new pluggable serializer feature and you can use CBOR serializer. You can read more about its implementation details in its source code on Github. This means you can just use Go structs to serialize messages when communicating between actors over the network.

Actor Model on Fadhil Dev Blog

CBOR serialization in Goakt V4