// BLOG
Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
Subscribe to get new posts →Today the Akka.NET project hit a massive milestone and became code complete for version 1.0. This puts us on track to hit the v1.0 public release within the timeframe that we (the core Akka.NET contributors) committed to back in February....
Today we’re going to learn about one of the really cool things actors can do: change their behavior at run-time! This capability allows you to do all sorts of cool stuff, like build Finite State Machines (FSM) or change how...
Now that Akka.NET is leaving beta and hitting the 1.0 milestone, we’ve seen interest and production usage ramp up quickly. The Last Few Months Over the last two months, we’ve been working with several cutting-edge teams to help them rearchitect...
Over the last several months, interest in Akka.NET has increased dramatically. And yet, many people find the actor model intimidating and can’t seem to really get up and running. Developers want to learn how to use Akka.NET, but where do...
After over a year of hard work, we’re thrilled to announce that Akka.NET will soon be leaving beta! The community of global contributors has grown rapidly and is picking up even more momentum. Akka.NET (repo) is a community-driven port of...
NOTE: These are the official release notes from https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/releases/tag/v0.8, but with some slight formatting changes. Dependency Injection Support For Ninject, Castle Windsor, and Autofac Thanks to some amazing effort from individual contributor (@jcwrequests), Akka.NET now has direct dependency injection support...
How do you keep your actor system from falling apart when things go wrong? The short answer is Supervision. What Is Supervision, and Why Should You Care? What Is Supervision? “Look at this mess you made. Now clean it up...
One of the first questions developers ask once they learn how Akka.NET actors work is If actors can only process one message at a time, can I still use async methods or Task<T> objects inside my actors? The answer is...
An Akka.NET actor is an isolated C# object that receives messages and processes one message at a time. Actors communicate by sending messages instead of sharing mutable state, which makes concurrent and distributed systems easier to reason about. If you...
It’s been a massive year for Akka.NET and I want to highlight some of the amazing contributions that have been made to that project. I’m writing this post from my perspective, but it’s not about me. This month marks the...