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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:...
It seems like just yesterday that I wrote “Akka.NET - One Year Later”; as of November 21st, 2023, Akka.NET is now ten years old. I don’t have my original prototype Akka code anymore; all I have is Helios - the...
Last Thursday, September 7th we executed our “Akka.NET Application Management Best Practices” webinar and I’ve made the recording available on YouTube for everyone to watch for themselves. The code sample I created for this webinar can also be found here:...
Phobos is our observability + monitoring library for Akka.NET and last year we launched Phobos 2.0 which moved our entire implementation onto OpenTelemetry. One of the issues we’ve had with Phobos: many of our customers build low-latency, real-time applications and...
In our previous post we covered the Akka.NET v1.5 release and in particular, we focused on the changes made to the core Akka.NET modules. In this blog post we’re going to cover the three new libraries we’ve added to Akka.NET...
As of today, Akka.NET v1.5 is now available as a stable release package on NuGet for both .NET Standard 2.0 and NET 6.0. This is a big release aimed at addressing pain points for current Akka.NET users. We’ve published a...