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 and build out new systems for use cases as diverse as citywide Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring, rearchitecting to microservices, and converting their ETL pipelines from batch to realtime.

Oh, and we’ve been teaching a lot of people the actor model and how to use Akka.NET through our Akka.NET Bootcamp and on-site training.

During that time, we got a little busy and forgot to announce this, so let’s fix that: Petabridge is now officially available for consulting, training, and support!

How We Can Help You

Consulting

Get your Akka.NET projects out the door faster by getting some help from the people who work on it.

Whether you’re looking to rearchitect your system to use microservices, migrate from hacky batch processing to responsive + streaming ETL, or you want to build out scalable new capabilities from scratch, we can help you get there faster. We also have a special offering for combining Akka.NET with Cassandra.

In-person Training

Want to learn how Akka.Cluster and Akka.Persistence can help you build high availability systems easily? And how to integrate them with other technologies your company currently uses like ASP.NET, SignalR, NServiceBus, or Windows Azure?

Well, we do that!

Support

Get fast resolutions to your issues with Akka.NET applications from members of the core engineering team.

In short, we can help you create the new system you’ve envisioned, train your team, and/or help you through whatever bugs come up in your system, saving you tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of aggravation.

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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 they go? There haven’t been very many good answers to that question. Until now.

We decided to fix that.

And so…

Introducing Akka.net Bootcamp

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve launched Akka.NET Bootcamp to provide this exact learning resource to developers everywhere!

We put bootcamp together to help you learn the insanely powerful actor model in an accessible, fun way. The course starts from fundamentals and takes you all the way to knowing what you need to in order to create sophisticated, distributed apps in .NET.

What Is Bootcamp?

Bootcamp is a free, self-directed learning course. You can do it at whatever pace you wish. Bootcamp launched initially in C# only, but F# support is almost done. Hundreds of developers around the world are already members of Bootcamp.

Why Should I Do Bootcamp?

You know that you need to get ahead of the curve and learn about distributed computing, functional programming, and cloud computing. When we started learning about distributed computing, we were overwhelmed by the sheer amount of things we needed to know. Consistent hashing, consensus algorithms, PAXOS, Raft, replication strategies… the list goes on and on.

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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 JVM Akka to .NET. Akka.NET is a programming framework, based on the Actor Model, for building powerful concurrent & distributed applications more easily.

The framework itself handles all thread management, low-level networking, and the utility code and “plumbing” for you. You just focus on the logic and workflow of your application.

After releasing v0.8 last week, the core contributors met to lay out the roadmap to v1.0 and decide which features will be finalized for the release, and which will remain in beta.

The general focus for the release is a lot of polishing and testing, along with some feature improvements.

When Will 1.0 Come Out?

With some room for error built in, we expect to have 1.0 live in the next 1-2 months.

What’s in 1.0?

Scheduler API Rework

Håkan is leading the charge on redoing the Scheduler API. To revisit, this is the ability to schedule future and/or recurring tasks within your actor system.

Supervisor Strategy Serialization

Roger is already well-underway on reworking how Supervisor strategies are serialized. This will help us ensure that remote hierarchies work as intended when using Akka.Remote and Akka.Cluster.

Specs & Added Stability

The test suite is already thorough, but Bartosz is leading the charge on adding more tests, general polishing, and digging through APIs just to make sure.

Documentation Rework and Cleanup

Andrew is working with a number of community members to rework the documentation, especially the onboarding process for new users to...

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