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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 →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...
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...
Today we shipped Akka.NET v1.0.2, a maintenance release that fixed a number of bugs as well as introduced some exciting new features. Major Akka.Cluster Stability Upgrades Akka.Cluster is still in beta at the moment, but we’re on target for a...
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...