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2026

April

Apr 13 Managing Long-Running Tasks Inside Akka.NET Actors

January

Jan 14 How AI Will Transform Open Source Business Models
Jan 08 AI Won't Kill Open Source - It Will Amplify It

2025

December

Dec 30 Migrating from CRUD to CQRS and Event-Sourcing with Akka.Persistence

November

Nov 26 The Worst Security Vulnerability in Akka.NET - And How to Fix It
Nov 21 How Do You Fix 70% Data Loss Across 1 Million Concurrent Connections?

October

Oct 24 Akka.NET + Kubernetes: Everything You Need to Know

September

Sep 24 You Don't Need to Use Akka.HealthChecks Anymore
Sep 17 Phobos 2.10: Game-Changing Akka.NET Cluster Monitoring and Actor Performance Dashboards

August

Aug 28 The Easiest Way to Do OpenTelemetry in .NET: OTLP + Collector
Aug 14 Why Akka.Streams.Kafka is the Best Kafka Client for .NET

July

Jul 08 Self-Healing Akka.NET Clusters

June

Jun 20 Model Context Protocol, Without the Hype

May

May 14 Form Akka.NET Clusters Dynamically with Akka.Management and Akka.Discovery

April

Apr 18 Introducing Incrementalist, an Incremental .NET Build Tool for Large Solutions

March

Mar 26 Retiring Akka.Persistence.SqlServer, Postgres, Sqlite
Mar 14 .NET Heisenbug Mystery Theater: How Did an Exception Escape its Catch Block?

February

Feb 17 Introducing Akka.NET Bootcamp 2.0

January

Jan 29 10 Important Engineering Lessons Learned Over 10 Years of Petabridge
Jan 14 Akka.NET v1.6 Roadmap and Features

2024

December

Dec 18 How to Start Learning Actor-Based Programming
Dec 08 Why IActorRef.Tell Doesn't Return a Task

September

Sep 17 Akka.NET Actors' Hidden Super Power: Behavior Switching

August

Aug 01 The Worst .NET Bug I've Ever Fixed

June

Jun 05 How Akka.NET Actors Process Messages

April

Apr 23 Akka.NET, ASP.NET Core, Hosted Services, and Dependency Injection

March

Mar 22 Distributing State Reliably with Akka.Cluster.Sharding

February

Feb 29 .NET Performance Optimization: Deferred Allocations
Feb 09 New Akka.NET Training Courses and Support Plans

2023

December

Dec 14 Solving Major Database Contention Problems with Throttling and Akka.NET Streams

November

Nov 30 10 Years of Building Akka.NET

September

Sep 11 Don't Build Your Own Bespoke Company Frameworks on Top of Akka.NET

July

Jul 21 How We Made Phobos 2.4's OpenTelemetry Usage 62% Faster

March

Mar 23 Akka.NET v1.5: No Hocon, No Lighthouse, No Problem
Mar 02 Akka.NET v1.5 is Now Available

February

Feb 26 Scaling Akka.Persistence.Query to 100k+ Concurrent Queries for Large-Scale CQRS

January

Jan 19 2022 Akka.NET Year-in-Review and Future Roadmap

2022

November

Nov 17 .NET 7.0's Performance Improvements with Dynamic PGO are Incredible

September

Sep 10 Lightbend's Akka License Change and Akka.NET

May

May 04 Phobos 2.0 Released - OpenTelemetry Meets Akka.NET

April

Apr 04 Introducing Akka.Hosting - HOCONless Akka.NET Configuration and Runtime

March

Mar 18 Announcing Petabridge.Templates 2.0 - Professional Akka.NET Application and Library Templates

February

Feb 05 Async / Await vs. PipeTo in Akka.NET Actors

2021

December

Dec 22 Phobos Updates: Improvements and Upcoming OpenTelemetry Support

September

Sep 15 High Optionality Programming: Software Architectures that Reduce Technical Debt - Part 1

August

Aug 31 Why and When to Use Akka.Streams

May

May 12 Best Practices for Integrating Akka.NET with ASP.NET Core and SignalR
May 05 Case Study: Vertech Using Akka.NET for Device Simulation

April

Apr 15 How to Build Headless Akka.NET Services with IHostedService

January

Jan 27 Akka.NET Dependency Injection Best Practices
Jan 08 Real World Akka.NET Clustering: Process Managers and Long-Running Operations

2020

December

Dec 15 Phobos v1.0.0 - Programmatic Configuration, Improved Integrations, and Reduced Pricing

November

Nov 02 Real World Akka.NET Clustering: State Machines

October

Oct 06 Now Open for Business: Sdkbin - the Marketplace for .NET Developers

June

Jun 02 The Current State of OpenTelemetry in .NET

March

Mar 12 Akka.NET v1.4 is Available on .NET Standard 2.0

January

Jan 21 Introduction to Akka.Streams

2019

August

Aug 08 How to Use Github Professionally

July

Jul 31 Best Practices for Designing Akka.NET Domain Events and Commands

May

May 17 New Akka.Remote and Akka.Cluster.Sharding Command Palettes for Petabridge.Cmd

February

Feb 25 Akka.NET vs. Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Other Messaging Systems

2018

October

Oct 25 Why You Should be Paying Attention to OpenTracing

September

Sep 30 New Phobos Release: v0.6.0 - Jaeger, Application Insights, and Akka.Cluster Sharding Support
Sep 19 What Happens When Akka.NET Actors Restart
Sep 06 How Distributed Tracing Solves One of the Worst Microservices Problems

August

Aug 19 Introducing Phobos: Enterprise DevOps Suite for Akka.NET

June

Jun 12 The Proper Care and Feeding of Akka.NET Clusters: Understanding Reachability vs. Membership

2017

September

Sep 21 Petabridge.Cmd and Akka.Monitoring Updated to Support Akka.NET v1.3.1

August

Aug 14 Akka.NET v1.3 is Now Available on .NET 4.5 and .NET Standard 1.6
Aug 11 Akka.NET has Joined the .NET Foundation

June

Jun 07 Introducing Petabridge.Cmd - a Command-line Management Tool for Akka.NET Applications

May

May 17 Akka.NET 2017 Roadmap Update

April

Apr 17 Akka.NET 1.2: Production-ready Akka.Cluster.Tools and Akka.Streams

February

Feb 14 Introduction to Distributed Publish-Subscribe in Akka.NET

January

Jan 31 Technical Overview of Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET
Jan 17 Introduction to Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET

2016

November

Nov 30 Designing Akka.NET Applications from Scratch Part 2: Hierarchies and SOLID Principles

September

Sep 21 Free Webinar on September 26th: Introduction to Akka.NET and Akka.Cluster
Sep 15 Case Study: DigiOutsource Uses Akka.NET to Grow Revenue by 35%
Sep 01 Designing Akka.NET Applications from Scratch Part 1: Go with the Flow

August

Aug 10 Certified Akka.NET Builds and Akka.NET Support Plans

July

Jul 26 Distributing State in Akka.Cluster Applications
Jul 06 Akka.NET 1.1: Production-ready Akka.Cluster; Akka.Streams Beta

May

May 27 Akka.NET Near-Term Roadmap: 1.1 Akka.Cluster RTM on June 14; 1.5, 1.6 Releases
May 10 The Business Case for Actors and Akka.NET

April

Apr 11 Performance Testing Should be Mandatory

March

Mar 24 Why You Should Try to Avoid Exactly Once Message Delivery
Mar 11 How to Guarantee Delivery of Messages in Akka.NET

February

Feb 20 Akka.NET Virtual Meetup #3 on February 29th

January

Jan 28 Learning the Github Workflow
Jan 15 Akka.NET Virtual Meetup #2 on January 26th
Jan 07 Creating Persistent Actors in Akka.NET with Akka.Persistence

2015

December

Dec 28 Introducing NBench - an Automated Performance Testing Framework for .NET Applications

November

Nov 13 How to Unit Test Akka.NET Actors with Akka.TestKit

September

Sep 23 The New .NET Stack
Sep 09 How to Stop an Actor... the Right Way
Sep 07 The Top 7 Mistakes Newbies Make with Akka.NET

August

Aug 20 How to Integrate Akka.NET and ASP.NET (and Nancy!)
Aug 17 The Inevitable Rise of the Stateful Web Application
Aug 11 Akka.NET Goes to Wall Street
Aug 05 Announcing: Akka.NET Virtual Meetup

July

Jul 15 Large Messages and Sockets in Akka.NET

June

Jun 30 Meet the Top Akka.NET Design Patterns
Jun 13 How to Create Scalable Clustered Applications Using Akka.Cluster
Jun 02 Akka.NET v1.0.2 Released - Akka.Cluster Fixes, Akka.Persistence.Cassandra, Akka.Persistence.PostgreSQL, and more!
Jun 01 Akka.NET: How to Remotely Deploy Actors Using Akka.Remote

May

May 22 Scale Your Apps Without Rewriting Code
May 20 When Should I Use Actor Selection?
May 07 Akka.NET 2015-2016 Roadmap
May 06 Akka.NET Internals: How Akka.Remote Connections Work

April

Apr 28 How to Start Contributing to Open Source Software
Apr 09 Akka.NET Leaves Beta To Bring the Reactive Model to .NET

March

Mar 31 No More FoundationDBs
Mar 30 Akka.NET v1.0 is Code Complete
Mar 05 Building Finite State Machines With Actors: Switchable Behavior
Mar 03 Announcing Akka.NET Professional Services

February

Feb 25 Introducing... Akka.NET Bootcamp!
Feb 15 The Road to Akka.NET v1.0
Feb 12 Akka.NET v0.8 Release - Dependency Injection, Akka.Persistence, and More!
Feb 06 How Actors Recover from Failure

January

Jan 27 How to Do Asynchronous I/O with Akka.NET Actors Using PipeTo
Jan 25 Akka.NET: What is an Actor?
Jan 20 Akka.NET - One Year Later
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