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In the first post in this series, we discussed how the correct place to begin thinking about an Akka.NET application is actually with your data flows and organizing those into reusable “protocols”. Once that’s done, then it’s time to start...
On Monday, September 26th at 8:00am PDT Petabridge will be hosting a free webinar entitled “Introduction to Distributed Systems with Akka.NET with Akka.Cluster“ - the goal of which is to help educate developers, architects, and technology executives on how these...
Our last customer case study “Akka.NET Goes to Wall Street” remains as one of the most popular articles on Petabridge, and today I’m pleased to share with you a new case study written by Kim-Lisa Gad and the DigiOutsource team...
Since releasing Akka.NET 1.1 I’ve been spending more time sharpening the saw here at Petabridge. Combing over the ways we spend our time and money and quantifying the returns that provides to us and to our customers. As it turns...
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...
[!IMPORTANT] This blog post is out of date and the practices here are no longer recommended for state distribution with Akka.NET.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...
As of a few moments ago, we released Akka.NET 1.1 - the biggest feature release we’ve done for Akka.NET since releasing 1.0 last year! We have other major Akka.NET feature releases planned for later this year, but this is the...
It’s been a while since we’ve published an official roadmap update for Akka.NET. We are still on track to achieve the goals of the previous roadmap, but with a few minor changes that I will explain here. Akka.NET 1.1 -...
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...
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...