title: Difference in message-passing model of Akka and Vert.x
body: <p>Am a Scala programmer and understand Akka from a developer point of view. I have not looked into Akka library's code. Have read about the two types of actors in the Akka model - thread-based and event-based - but not having run Akka at large scale I dont have experience of configuring Akka for production. And am completely new to Vert.x. So, from the choices perspective to build a reactive application stack I want to know -</p>
  
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  <li>Is the message-passing model of Akka and Vert.x very different? How?</li>
  <li>Are the data-structures behind Akka's actors and Vert.x's verticles to buffer messages very different?</li>
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