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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
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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...
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...