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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
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One of the complaints we’ve heard for years from Akka.NET developers is “it’s hard to debug Akka.NET clusters locally.” For a long time there were manual work-arounds and techniques such as using multiple launchSettings.json profiles and launching a seed node...
Imagine your business has to execute long-running jobs that can take anywhere from a few minutes to tens of hours to execute. You want to scale horizontally on-demand in order to parallelize job execution - Akka.NET is a perfect technology...
I’ve been wanting to write this post every single day for about six weeks now, and I finally get to: we shipped a brand new open source project called Netclaw. Netclaw is an always-on, autonomous personal assistant built on top...
Register one OpenTelemetry source and your traces will show the real shape of your Akka.Streams graph: every stage, in the order it actually runs. No commercial license, no extra wiring. It’s built into Akka.NET as of v1.5.66. People have been...
Back at the very end of March we shipped Akka.NET v1.5.64. We’ve done a handful of releases since then, but I want to come back to this one specifically, because it contained a change that’s been a long time coming:...
Every so often a customer comes along whose use case is so demanding that it validates every design decision you’ve ever made in the framework. Luware is that customer for us. Jason Shave is an Engineering Manager at Luware, where...
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...