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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
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We know OpenTelemetry deeply at Petabridge. We’ve built Phobos, an OpenTelemetry instrumentation plugin for Akka.NET, so we understand the low-level bits. Beyond that, we’ve been using OpenTelemetry in production for years on Sdkbin and we’ve helped over 100 customers implement...
If you’re using Kafka in .NET, you’re probably writing hundreds of lines of code just to handle “what happens when my consumer crashes?” or “how do I retry failed messages?” or “what happens when I’m consuming messages too fast?” What...
We just recently wrote about using Akka.Management to help automate Akka.Cluster formation in most runtime environments - this post deals with a similar theme: how Akka.Cluster’s built-in infrastructure deals with network failures that will inevitably occur inside any distributed application...
We haven’t talked that much about AI and LLM-driven development here at Petabridge, aside from a webinar we ran a year ago, but we’ve been using it heavily on our day jobs: Creating the visuals for “Why Learn Akka.NET?”; Doing...
Akka.Cluster is a very powerful piece of software aimed at helping .NET developers build highly available, low-latency, distributed software. At its core, Akka.Cluster is about building peer-to-peer networks—that’s what a “cluster” actually is: a peer-to-peer network that runs in a...
We blog a ton about Akka.NET here, but Petabridge really is a .NET open source company. Throughout our work on Akka.NET we create many other OSS tools in support of much more general purpose .NET use cases, such as the...
It was just about 10 years ago when we shipped Akka.NET v1.0.2, the release where we first introduced betas of some of our most popular Akka.Persistence plugins: Akka.Persistence.Postgres, Akka.Persistence.SqlServer, and Akka.Persistence.Sqlite. All of these plugins were based off of a...
Over the past several months the Akka.NET team has had reports of the following Exception popping up unexpectedly throughout many of our plugins and end-user applications that use the Akka.Streams1 SelectAsync stage - such as Akka.Streams.Kafka and Akka.Persistence.Sql: That error...
Akka.NET Bootcamp has a special place in my heart because it’s really “the thing” that launched Petabridge as a business 10 years ago. However, the original Akka.NET Bootcamp should have really been replaced years ago as both Akka.NET and the...
When we first started Petabridge in January 2015, I never imagined that we’d be at this for 2-3 years, let alone 10! But here we are. It’s been an amazing journey and our privilege to work with so many amazing...