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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 first Akka.NET cluster tutorial shows you how to turn a local actor application into a scalable cluster with Akka.Cluster. Start with a working Akka.NET application and basic actor-model familiarity; the lesson walks through cluster formation, includes a 21-minute video...
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....
The Petabridge team (all two of us) just wrapped up a big two weeks. We launched Akka.NET V1.0 and then traveled to Portland to talk about .NET open source software at .NET Fringe. One of central themes of .NET Fringe...
Open-source frameworks these days, they just grow up so darn fast… Today marks a major milestone on a long road—466 days since the first commit, to be exact—in bringing the Reactive Model to the CLR. Akka.NET has officially left -beta...
Last week, Wired ran an article called “What Happens When Apple Buys a Company You Depend On?,” which tells the story of how FoundationDB was acquired by Apple and subsequently threw their customers under the bus. This is a developer’s...