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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
Subscribe to get new posts →At Akka.NET’s inception, most of the server-side code samples we produced all demonstrated how to build so-called “headless” Akka.NET services as outright Windows Services primarily using libraries like Topshelf. .NET has changed tremendously since then and become a truly cross-platform...
As part of the Akka.NET v1.4.15 release we’ve completely rewritten how dependency injection works in Akka.NET and introduced a new library: Akka.DependencyInjection. In this blog post we’re going to introduce Akka.DependencyInjection and some of the best practices for working with...
In our previous installment of “Real World Akka.NET Clustering”, we covered state machines - the tried and true tool for modeling event-driven behavior for business entities inside your domain. And we also demonstrated that using Akka.NET programming techniques such as...
Phobos is Petabridge’s application performance monitoring (APM) integration library for Akka.NET, which we released originally back in 2018. Since then it’s undergone some major changes and transformations in order to better support Akka.NET and Akka.NET users. Short Version Phobos, our...
Petabridge recently launched its first cloud service, Sdkbin, and it’s been a great opportunity for our team to use the Akka.NET tools, patterns, and practices that we’ve been recommending to our customers for years. In this blog post I’m going...
I formally introduced Sdkbin back on my personal blog in June, 2020, but it was not yet ready for Petabridge, its customers, or the users of the open source projects we support. As of September 30th, Sdkbin is now live...
In the past we’ve discussed why distributed tracing is becoming commonplace and the OpenTracing standard for instrumenting libraries and applications. In this post I want to touch on the emerging OpenTelemetry standard, which will become a common component used to...
As of this week, Akka.NET v1.4 is now fully available for users to use. We’ve published a detailed article on the Akka.NET website that describes what’s new in Akka.NET v1.4, but we wanted to capture some of the highlights here....
The goal of this blog post is to give you a glimpse of the idea and basics behind Akka.Streams. What they are and why you may find them useful addition in your day to day job. In short: Akka.Streams is...
I originally started writing this post as internal documentation for our own team here at Petabridge, but I thought this would be useful for our readers and users as well. Github has evolved over the years into a vast, rich...