// BLOG
Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.
Subscribe to get new posts →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...
In this blog post we’re going to cover some best practices you can use when designing domain events and objects intended to work with Akka.NET. If you follow these best practices you’ll run into fewer errors, clearer log messages, and...
We introduced Petabridge.Cmd in 2017 to make it easy for Akka.NET users to deploy, monitor, and manage their Akka.NET applications. We have now expanded the capabilities of Petabridge.Cmd by introducing two new command palettes to further simplify the way you...
A while back I created a thread on Twitter to attempt to explain the difference between Akka.NET and some other popular message-distribution and queuing technologies, such as Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ. Common question I get from users who are just...
In a previous post we introduced distributed tracing and how it solves some of the worst DevOps problems that arise with the use of microservices. In this post we’re going to introduce the OpenTracing standard and talk how what this...
We released Phobos, our enterprise DevOps suite for Akka.NET only just last month and we’ve already had major Akka.NET users put it through its paces in development and production environments. Based on our users’ feedback and suggestions, we’ve developed Phobos...
One of the most powerful features of Akka.NET actors is their built-in fault tolerance. Actors are an extremely effective tool at isolating failures and preventing them from having side effects on other parts of your application. However, one of the...
Historically most web applications were developed as monolithic architectures. The entire application shipped as a single process implemented on a single runtime. Ultimately this architectural choice makes scaling software development extremely painstaking and tedious, because 100% of code changes submitted...
Today it’s my pleasure to announce the production-ready release of Phobos, an enterprise DevOps suite for Akka.NET developers. The initial release of Phobos is primarily aimed at solving the following problems: Instrumenting and monitoring activity from actors inside large Akka.NET...
Akka.Cluster is one of the most popular and useful parts of the Akka.NET ecosystem as a whole, but it’s also one of the most concept-heavy areas. We have a lot of literature on both the official Akka.NET documentation and elsewhere...