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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 →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...
I have to level with you. Dealing with network programming in my applications has always freaked me out a little bit. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? Let’s be real about it: low-level network programming is some scary...
My favorite part about teaching Akka.NET to people is the questions I get. I never have any clue what someone is going to ask me, and that’s kind of exciting. Last Thursday, we had an awesome group of developers participate...
The release of Akka.NET 1.0 marked the delivery of the project’s first major milestone and enabled us to commit to preserving long-term APIs for the foreseeable future. The core Akka.NET team and I have put together a rough roadmap that...
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....