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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 →In this post we introduce the Akka.TestKit module - a library that makes it easy to unit test Akka.NET actors using all of the popular .NET unit testing frameworks. A Brief End-to-End Akka.TestKit Example Before going deep into the TestKit,...
The concepts in this post were first introduced in a talk at the 2015 Cassandra Summit. I’ve been a .NET developer for roughly 10 years now - since the summer after my freshman year in college in 2005 I’ve been...
Stopping an actor is a routine operation that developers often find confusing. This is because each actor is like a micro process, and all interaction with an actor is asynchronous. So shutting down an actor is more complex than stopping...
The actor model is a radically new concept for the majority of Akka.NET users, and therein lies some challenges. In this post we’re going to outline some of the common mistakes we see from beginners all the time when we...
NOTE: A lot has changed in both the .NET and Akka.NET ecosystems since this post was originally written in 2015 and we have since released an updated blog post: “Best Practices for Integrating Akka.NET with ASP.NET Core and SignalR”. Lots...
Our Akka.NET Virtual Meetup on August 12th was a huge success - we had about 100 users on the livestream with us and the recording of the meetup has been viewed several hundred times since. One of the topics I...
Many people in the Akka.NET community have been asking for case studies over the last few weeks, since we shared the MarkedUp case study. There are a ton of production deployments, but getting actual case studies out always has some...
This is a short update, but an important one. The first Akka.NET Virtual Meetup will be next Wednesday, August 12 @ 18:30UTC. RSVP Here. The first ever community-wide meetup for Akka.NET will be taking place next Wednesday, August 12. You...
One of the questions that has been coming up a lot lately as many people are building with Akka.Remote is this: How big of a message can I send over the network? I’ve been asked about this four or five...
Just the other day, I saw this tweet and knew this post was long overdue: Is there any list of actor model design patterns ? @AkkaDotNET— Laurent Lepinay (@foobarcode) June 24, 2015 Quite understandably, people want to know what the...