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Video tutorials, webinar recordings, and conference talks on Akka.NET, distributed systems, and .NET development.
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We just recently wrote about using Akka.Management to help automate Akka.Cluster formation in most runtime environments - this post deals with a similar theme: how Akka.Cluster’s built-in infrastructure deals with network failures that will inevitably occur inside any distributed application...
We put together a new YouTube video on our Petabridge channel (which you should subscribe to) yesterday, “Akka.NET Actors’ Hidden Super Power: Switchable Behaviors” - all about one of my favorite features in Akka.NET: the Become method for swapping actor...
The month of July, 2024 was pretty rough for me and the Petabridge crew from a workload standpoint. Our office got hit with a hurricane. My entire family and I were out sick with COVID in the middle of being...
It’s been a little while since we covered Akka.NET 101 on our blog, so we decided it was time to visit one of the most fundamental and significant matters users need to understand about Akka.NET in order to leverage it...
We first introduced Akka.Hosting a couple of years ago and released it to market one of the major pillars of Akka.NET v1.5. Without any exaggeration, it is the single best usability improvement we have ever made to Akka.NET and we...
We’ve had a number of posts on Akka.Cluster.Sharding on this blog: “Introduction to Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET” “Technical Overview of Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET” Both of those were written by Bartosz Sypytkowski, who originally contributed those features to Akka.NET. We’ve had a...
We just finished shipping Phobos 2.5 and it’s a massive performance upgrade over previous versions of Phobos. For those that are not aware: Phobos is our commerical OpenTelemetry add-on for Akka.NET. This past summer we posted about Phobos 2.4’s performance...
It seems like just yesterday that I wrote “Akka.NET - One Year Later”; as of November 21st, 2023, Akka.NET is now ten years old. I don’t have my original prototype Akka code anymore; all I have is Helios - the...
Last Thursday, September 7th we executed our “Akka.NET Application Management Best Practices” webinar and I’ve made the recording available on YouTube for everyone to watch for themselves. The code sample I created for this webinar can also be found here:...
In our Akka.NET Community Standup on March 9th, 2022 we presented for the very first time Akka.Hosting - a new approach to configuring Akka.NET and managing ActorSystems that requires zero HOCON, automatically enforces Akka.NET best practices, is type-checked, and makes...
Many years ago I wrote an article entitled “How to Do Asynchronous I/O with Akka.NET Actors Using PipeTo” - back when await support was still very much a work in progress. I subsequently wrote a major update on that article...
On this blog before we’ve covered a high level introduction to Akka.Streams for Akka.NET, but in this post we go into some more detail on: What is Akka.Streams; The motivations for using Akka.Streams; and When should you use Akka.Streams? “Introduction...
In the recent past we blogged about hosting headless Akka.NET services using IHostedService and we thought we’d extend that train of thought to cover ASP.NET Core. .NET’s web ecosystem has changed a lot since 2015, when we last wrote about...
At Akka.NET’s inception, most of the server-side code samples we produced all demonstrated how to build so-called “headless” Akka.NET services as outright Windows Services primarily using libraries like Topshelf. .NET has changed tremendously since then and become a truly cross-platform...
As part of the Akka.NET v1.4.15 release we’ve completely rewritten how dependency injection works in Akka.NET and introduced a new library: Akka.DependencyInjection. In this blog post we’re going to introduce Akka.DependencyInjection and some of the best practices for working with...
Phobos is Petabridge’s application performance monitoring (APM) integration library for Akka.NET, which we released originally back in 2018. Since then it’s undergone some major changes and transformations in order to better support Akka.NET and Akka.NET users. Short Version Phobos, our...
We released Phobos, our enterprise DevOps suite for Akka.NET only just last month and we’ve already had major Akka.NET users put it through its paces in development and production environments. Based on our users’ feedback and suggestions, we’ve developed Phobos...
One of the most powerful features of Akka.NET actors is their built-in fault tolerance. Actors are an extremely effective tool at isolating failures and preventing them from having side effects on other parts of your application. However, one of the...
Historically most web applications were developed as monolithic architectures. The entire application shipped as a single process implemented on a single runtime. Ultimately this architectural choice makes scaling software development extremely painstaking and tedious, because 100% of code changes submitted...
Today it’s my pleasure to announce the production-ready release of Phobos, an enterprise DevOps suite for Akka.NET developers. The initial release of Phobos is primarily aimed at solving the following problems: Instrumenting and monitoring activity from actors inside large Akka.NET...
This is a follow-up to our last post, “How to Guarantee Delivery of Messages in Akka.NET.” In that post we introduced the AtLeastOnceDeliveryActor and talked about strategies for retrying deliveries of messages in order to make sure they’re successfully procssed....
After last month’s successful Akka.NET virtual meetup, we’re going to be coming right back with another on on February 29th at 18:00 UTC. RSVP Here. Update: thanks to everyone who attended! You can view the meetup below! When is the...
Petabridge does .NET open source software. One of the great things that’s happening in .NET-land right now is that scores of developers from traditionally more conservative, pure Microsoft stack companies are starting to become not just users of open source...
2016 is going to be a big year for Akka.NET, and we’re starting things off right by hosting our second Akka.NET Virtual Meetup on Tuesday, January 26th @ 18:00UTC. RSVP Here. Update: thanks to everyone who attended! You can view...
One of the most powerful ways to use Akka.NET in production is to create clustered applications that can scale on-demand. You can literally deploy code somewhere other than the immediate, local process making the call. And the way this is...
One of the absolute coolest things you can do in Akka.NET is remotely deploy actors over the internet to other machines. You can literally deploy code somewhere other than the immediate, local process making the call. Note: The code samples...
Today, we’re going to begin introducing the world to the internals of Akka.NET. These are the advanced technical topics and explain what is actually going on “under the hood” to make the magic happen. We begin our exploration with Akka.Remote....