Akka.Persistence is one of the plugins, that introduce an eventsourced persistence mechanics into Akka.NET. However, I've often seen people having problems, since neither actors nor eventsourcing are part of mainstream .NET development. A lot of these are often…
[C#] Using gRPC with custom serializers
I've decided to write this post, because I've noticed a little lack of gRPC-related knowledge in .NET community. For those of you who are not familiar with it - gRPC is a standard protocol for defining high-performance RPC services, build…
Optimizing event journals
In this post I want to talk a little about some little optimization techniques, we've applied to some of the journals used in Akka.NET - those working with SQL backends. Before you read further - this post is written…
Quest for optionally asynchronous APIs
In this blog post I wanted to share with some of the improvements, we've made while working on the FSharp.Data.GraphQL library. To start with I'm going to describe our use case, what issues did we observe and how…
On GraphQL issues and how we're going to solve them
Facebook GraphQL is one of the emerging (web) technologies, giving a new light on the future of web APIs. I'm not going to introduce it here - there is a plenty of articles on that subject, starting from official site.…
Don't Ask, Tell
Today I wanted to focus on some of the popular anti-patterns, many Akka.NET newcomers tend to use. I'm talking about using Ask method for communicating between actors. I want to get a closer look into what Ask really does…
About Finite State Machines
One of the problem I see with explaining usefulness of Finite State Machines design to web developers is similar to explaining the monads - once you've get them, you loose the ability to explain them to others. It's sad, as…
Adventure time of semi-dynamic typing
This post is the result of some ideas, that raised in (not only) my head after reading next article about inevitable fall of dynamically typed languages. However I won't be discussing it, as it's not major subject here. One of…