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Distributed systems architecture, Akka.NET patterns, .NET + AI development, and performance — from the framework’s creators.

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Aug 10, 2016
Certified Akka.NET Builds and Akka.NET Support Plans

Certified Akka.NET Builds and Akka.NET Support Plans

More and more companies are choosing to use Akka.NET each day to fulfill mission-critical workloads in tons of different business domains: finance, health care, fleet and vehicle tracking, energy, and more. Beginning today Petabridge is pleased to offer these companies...

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Jul 26, 2016
Distributing State in Akka.Cluster Applications

Distributing State in Akka.Cluster Applications

[!IMPORTANT] This blog post is out of date and the practices here are no longer recommended for state distribution with Akka.NET. Please see “Distributing State Reliably with Akka.Cluster.Sharding” instead. One of the most frequently asked questions about Akka.Cluster I receive...

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May 10, 2016
The Business Case for Actors and Akka.NET

The Business Case for Actors and Akka.NET

Akka.NET is a .NET implementation of the actor model. The actor model is an old technology, originating in 1973 as an approach to parallel computing at a time when it looked like the computers of the future might be constructed...

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Apr 11, 2016
Performance Testing Should be Mandatory

Performance Testing Should be Mandatory

Back in December I released the first publicly available version of NBench - Petabridge’s automated .NET performance testing and benchmarking framework. NBench has proven itself to be an invaluable part of our QA process for Akka.NET and scores of other...

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Mar 24, 2016

Why You Should Try to Avoid Exactly Once Message Delivery

This is a follow-up to our last post, “How to Guarantee Delivery of Messages in Akka.NET.” In that post we introduced the AtLeastOnceDeliveryActor and talked about strategies for retrying deliveries of messages in order to make sure they’re successfully procssed....

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Mar 11, 2016

How to Guarantee Delivery of Messages in Akka.NET

A question we get asked about frequently with Akka.NET is “how can I guarantee that my messages will eventually be received and processed by another actor?” Most of the time it’s developers who work on finance applications who have this...

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Feb 20, 2016

Akka.NET Virtual Meetup #3 on February 29th

After last month’s successful Akka.NET virtual meetup, we’re going to be coming right back with another on on February 29th at 18:00 UTC. RSVP Here. Update: thanks to everyone who attended! You can view the meetup below! When is the...

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Jan 28, 2016

Learning the Github Workflow

Petabridge does .NET open source software. One of the great things that’s happening in .NET-land right now is that scores of developers from traditionally more conservative, pure Microsoft stack companies are starting to become not just users of open source...

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