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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...
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...