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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
Subscribe to get new posts →It’s been a while since we’ve published an official roadmap update for Akka.NET. We are still on track to achieve the goals of the previous roadmap, but with a few minor changes that I will explain here. Akka.NET 1.1 -...
Akka.NET is a .NET implementation of the actor model. The actor model is an old technology, originating in 1973 as an approach to parallel computing at a time when it looked like the computers of the future might be constructed...
Back in December I released the first publicly available version of NBench - Petabridge’s automated .NET performance testing and benchmarking framework. NBench has proven itself to be an invaluable part of our QA process for Akka.NET and scores of other...
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....
A question we get asked about frequently with Akka.NET is “how can I guarantee that my messages will eventually be received and processed by another actor?” Most of the time it’s developers who work on finance applications who have this...
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 frequently asked questions I get is about how to create stateful actors that are also durable by default, meaning that the actor can recover its state from some sort of storage engine in the event that...
Not long ago in Akka.NET-land we had an issue occur where users noticed a dramatic drop in throughput in Akka.Remote’s message processing pipeline - and to make matters worse, this occurred in a production release of AKka.NET! Yikes, how did...