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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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 for Ninject, Castle Windsor, and AutoFac.

Let’s dive in!

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