title: Are seda and the actor model essentially equivalent?
body: <p>SEDA is essentially a set of independent "services" that communicate with each other via queues, which could further be abstracted as message passing.  </p>
  
  <p>The actor model is a set of independent functions, which communicate with each other through message passing.</p>
  
  <p>Aren't they essentially equivalent? Am I missing some key difference?</p>