You are probably thinking too course-grained. Erlang-style actors are closer to functions than processes. For example you could parallelize a for loop by creat

You are probably thinking too course-grained. Erlang-style actors are closer to functions than processes. For example you could parallelize a for loop by creating a goroutine for each item in a list. Or separate actors for logging, session tracking, connection pools, etc. Doing that with processes and Kafka would be massive overhead.