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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
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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...
We’re kicking off 2025 with a fresh look at Akka.NET and what we have planned for our next big release: Akka.NET v1.6! Akka.NET v1.6: a Performance-Focused Release As it says in our promo image here - Akka.NET v1.6 is a...
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...