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One of the most frequent pieces of feedback we get from developers who are new to Akka.NET is that the “learning curve” is high. I want to explore that today and why I think this isn’t actually true, but what...
A really, really common question Akka.NET beginners have within the first couple of hours of looking at Akka.NET: “how is the IActorRef.Tell method asynchronous if it’s a void method? Shouldn’t it return a Task I can await on?” Today I’m...
We put together a new YouTube video on our Petabridge channel (which you should subscribe to) yesterday, “Akka.NET Actors’ Hidden Super Power: Switchable Behaviors” - all about one of my favorite features in Akka.NET: the Become method for swapping actor...
The month of July, 2024 was pretty rough for me and the Petabridge crew from a workload standpoint. Our office got hit with a hurricane. My entire family and I were out sick with COVID in the middle of being...
It’s been a little while since we covered Akka.NET 101 on our blog, so we decided it was time to visit one of the most fundamental and significant matters users need to understand about Akka.NET in order to leverage it...
We first introduced Akka.Hosting a couple of years ago and released it to market one of the major pillars of Akka.NET v1.5. Without any exaggeration, it is the single best usability improvement we have ever made to Akka.NET and we...
We’ve had a number of posts on Akka.Cluster.Sharding on this blog: “Introduction to Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET” “Technical Overview of Akka.Cluster.Sharding in Akka.NET” Both of those were written by Bartosz Sypytkowski, who originally contributed those features to Akka.NET. We’ve had a...
We just finished shipping Phobos 2.5 and it’s a massive performance upgrade over previous versions of Phobos. For those that are not aware: Phobos is our commerical OpenTelemetry add-on for Akka.NET. This past summer we posted about Phobos 2.4’s performance...
It’s been a very long time since we’ve refreshed our Akka.NET training courses or Akka.NET support plans - so I’m pleased to announce that we are doing both effective immediately. You can watch my video summary below or read on:...
When troubleshooting performance problems in distributed systems or locally-run, high-throughput-required software I tell our users “your most severe performance problems are almost always going to be caused by flow control issues.” My preferred batting order for troubleshooting performance issues is:...