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+# Some simple examples exercising the APIs with curl
+curl localhost:5000/actors
+curl -X POST --data "name=foo&image=busybox" localhost:5000/actors
+curl -X POST --data "name=bar&image=bar_image&description=The bar actor" localhost:5000/actors
+curl -X POST --data "name=foo&image=busybox&description=A second foo actor" localhost:5000/actors
+curl localhost:5000/actors/foo_0
+curl localhost:5001/actors/foo_0/messages
+curl localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/state
+curl -X POST --data "state=some state" localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/state
+curl localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/state
+curl localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/executions
+curl -X POST --data "cpu=31&io=114&runtime=8256" localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/executions
+curl -X POST --data "cpu=9&io=5&runtime=1000" localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/executions
+curl localhost:5000/actors/foo_0/executions
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