Blog Archives
2024
December
How to Start Learning Actor-Based Programming
Why IActorRef.Tell Doesn't Return a Task
September
Akka.NET Actors' Hidden Super Power: Behavior Switching
August
The Worst .NET Bug I've Ever Fixed
June
How Akka.NET Actors Process Messages
April
Akka.NET, ASP.NET Core, Hosted Services, and Dependency Injection
March
Distributing State Reliably with Akka.Cluster.Sharding
February
.NET Performance Optimization: Deferred Allocations
New Akka.NET Training Courses and Support Plans
2023
December
Solving Major Database Contention Problems with Throttling and Akka.NET Streams
November
10 Years of Building Akka.NET
September
Don't Build Your Own Bespoke Company Frameworks on Top of Akka.NET
July
How We Made Phobos 2.4's OpenTelemetry Usage 62% Faster
March
Akka.NET v1.5: No Hocon, No Lighthouse, No Problem
Akka.NET v1.5 is Now Available
February
Scaling Akka.Persistence.Query to 100k+ Concurrent Queries for Large-Scale CQRS
January
2022 Akka.NET Year-in-Review and Future Roadmap
2022
November
.NET 7.0's Performance Improvements with Dynamic PGO are Incredible
September
Lightbend's Akka License Change and Akka.NET
May
Phobos 2.0 Released - OpenTelemetry Meets Akka.NET
April
Introducing Akka.Hosting - HOCONless Akka.NET Configuration and Runtime
March
Announcing Petabridge.Templates 2.0 - Professional Akka.NET Application and Library Templates
February
Async / Await vs. PipeTo in Akka.NET Actors
2021
December
Phobos Updates: Improvements and Upcoming OpenTelemetry Support
September
High Optionality Programming: Software Architectures that Reduce Technical Debt - Part 1
August
Why and When to Use Akka.Streams
May
Best Practices for Integrating Akka.NET with ASP.NET Core and SignalR
Case Study: Vertech Using Akka.NET for Device Simulation
April
How to Build Headless Akka.NET Services with IHostedService
January
Akka.NET Dependency Injection Best Practices
Real World Akka.NET Clustering: Process Managers and Long-Running Operations
2020
December
Phobos v1.0.0 - Programmatic Configuration, Improved Integrations, and Reduced Pricing
November
Real World Akka.NET Clustering: State Machines
October
Now Open for Business: Sdkbin - the Marketplace for .NET Developers
June
The Current State of OpenTelemetry in .NET
March
Akka.NET v1.4 is Available on .NET Standard 2.0
January
Introduction to Akka.Streams
2019
August
How to Use Github Professionally
July
Best Practices for Designing Akka.NET Domain Events and Commands
May
New Akka.Remote and Akka.Cluster.Sharding Command Palettes for Petabridge.Cmd
February
Akka.NET vs. Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Other Messaging Systems
2018
October
Why You Should be Paying Attention to OpenTracing
September
New Phobos Release: v0.6.0 - Jaeger, Application Insights, and Akka.Cluster Sharding Support
What Happens When Akka.NET Actors Restart
How Distributed Tracing Solves One of the Worst Microservices Problems
August
Introducing Phobos: Enterprise DevOps Suite for Akka.NET
June
The Proper Care and Feeding of Akka.NET Clusters: Understanding Reachability vs. Membership
2017
September
Petabridge.Cmd and Akka.Monitoring Updated to Support Akka.NET v1.3.1
August
Akka.NET v1.3 is Now Available on .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 1.6
Akka.NET has Joined the .NET Foundation
June
Introducing Petabridge.Cmd - a Command-line Management Tool for Akka.NET Applications
May
Akka.NET 2017 Roadmap Update
April
Akka.NET 1.2: Production-ready Akka.Cluster.Tools and Akka.Streams
February
Introduction to Distributed Publish-Subscribe in Akka.NET
January
Technical Overview of Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET
Introduction to Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET
2016
November
Designing Akka.NET Applications from Scratch Part 2: Hierarchies and SOLID Principles
September
Free Webinar on September 26th: Introduction to Akka.NET and Akka.Cluster
Case Study: DigiOutsource Uses Akka.NET to Grow Revenue by 35%
Designing Akka.NET Applications from Scratch Part 1: Go with the Flow
August
Certified Akka.NET Builds and Akka.NET Support Plans
July
Distributing State in Akka.Cluster Applications
Akka.NET 1.1: Production-ready Akka.Cluster; Akka.Streams Beta
May
Akka.NET Near-Term Roadmap: 1.1 Akka.Cluster RTM on June 14; 1.5, 1.6 Releases
The Business Case for Actors and Akka.NET
April
Performance Testing Should be Mandatory
March
Why You Should Try to Avoid Exactly Once Message Delivery
How to Guarantee Delivery of Messages in Akka.NET
February
Akka.NET Virtual Meetup #3 on February 29th
January
Learning the Github Workflow
Akka.NET Virtual Meetup #2 on January 26th
Creating Persistent Actors in Akka.NET with Akka.Persistence
2015
December
Introducing NBench - an Automated Performance Testing Framework for .NET Applications
November
How to Unit Test Akka.NET Actors with Akka.TestKit
September
The New .NET Stack
How to Stop an Actor... the Right Way
The Top 7 Mistakes Newbies Make with Akka.NET
August
How to Integrate Akka.NET and ASP.NET (and Nancy!)
The Inevitable Rise of the Stateful Web Application
Akka.NET Goes to Wall Street
Announcing: Akka.NET Virtual Meetup
July
Large Messages and Sockets in Akka.NET
June
Meet the Top Akka.NET Design Patterns
How to Create Scalable Clustered Applications Using Akka.Cluster
Akka.NET v1.0.2 Released - Akka.Cluster Fixes, Akka.Persistence.Cassandra, Akka.Persistence.PostgreSQL, and more!
Akka.NET: How to Remotely Deploy Actors Using Akka.Remote
May
Scale Your Apps Without Rewriting Code
When Should I Use Actor Selection?
Akka.NET 2015-2016 Roadmap
Akka.NET Internals: How Akka.Remote Connections Work
April
How to Start Contributing to Open Source Software
Akka.NET Leaves Beta To Bring the Reactive Model to .NET
March
No More FoundationDBs
Akka.NET v1.0 is Code Complete
Building Finite State Machines With Actors: Switchable Behavior
Announcing Akka.NET Professional Services
February
Introducing... Akka.NET Bootcamp!
The Road to Akka.NET v1.0
Akka.NET v0.8 Release - Dependency Injection, Akka.Persistence, and More!
How Actors Recover from Failure
January
How to Do Asynchronous I/O with Akka.NET Actors Using PipeTo
Akka.NET: What is an Actor?
Akka.NET - One Year Later
