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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
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Here’s a scenario we hit all the time on TextForge: a new user signs up, connects their Gmail account, and now we have to pull down their entire mailbox history. For the pro plan, that can be hundreds of thousands...
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 covered why AI is accelerating open source adoption, not killing it. This post examines which business models thrive and which struggle in the AI era. Subscribe to our mailing list...
Earlier this week, Adam Wathan, the creator of Tailwind CSS, dropped a bombshell about how AI has impacted his company and its employees: the reality is that 75% of the people on our engineering team lost their jobs here yesterday...
We’re about a year into the process of completely re-working Sdkbin to better support our needs here at Petabridge and, eventually, other third-party software vendors. Sdkbin was originally built on an extremely flimsy CRUD architecture that violates most of my...
In October 2025, we disclosed the most critical security vulnerability ever found in Akka.NET: CVE-2025-61778. This vulnerability affects Akka.Remote’s TLS implementation - specifically, we were supposed to implement mutual TLS (mTLS), but we didn’t. The server never validated client certificates,...
When your Akka.NET application starts dropping 70-80% of incoming connections in production, who do you call? That’s the situation one of our Production Support customers faced this year - and it’s exactly the kind of problem our Akka.NET Support Plans...
Running Akka.NET in Kubernetes can feel like a daunting task if you’re doing it for the first time. Between StatefulSets, Deployments, RBAC permissions, health checks, and graceful shutdowns, there are a lot of moving parts to get right. But here’s...
We have just recently shipped Akka.Hosting v1.5.48.1 and newer, all of which now have built-in Microsoft.Extensions.HealthCheck integration that is significantly easier to configure, fewer packages to install, and easier to customize than what we had with Akka.HealthChecks. This post consists...
Phobos 2.10 is here, and it’s a game-changer for anyone running Akka.NET applications in production. This release doesn’t just incrementally improve observability - it fundamentally transforms how you understand and troubleshoot actor performance in your clusters. The headline features: accurate...
We know OpenTelemetry deeply at Petabridge. We’ve built Phobos, an OpenTelemetry instrumentation plugin for Akka.NET, so we understand the low-level bits. Beyond that, we’ve been using OpenTelemetry in production for years on Sdkbin and we’ve helped over 100 customers implement...