Make your cluster SWIM

In this blog post we'll cover how systems form clusters, what clusters actually are and what are their responsibilities. We'll also present different protocols responsible to serve the needs of the clusters with a various tradeoffs…

Akka.Persistence: most common misconceptions

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…

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…

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…

Akka.NET underestimated features - Akka.IO

Today I want to talk about one of the Akka.NET features, I think deserves a lot more attention - Akka.IO. What it gives you, is the ability to connect your actors directly to OS socket layer. This way…

How Akka.NET persistence works?

In this post I'll explain, how the events sourcing concepts has been used by Akka.NET persistence plugin to create statefull actors being persisted and work in reliable way. My major goal is to give you an introduction…

Akka.NET application logging in your browser

In this post I want to share with fairly simple trick - binding Akka.NET logging bus directly to browser console output. While this is mostly form of exercise, you may find it useful when you're developing system…

Create your own Akka.NET persistence plugin

Subject of this post is one of the Akka.NET plugins, Akka.Persistence. It’s major task is to give your actors an ability to store their internal state and recover it from the persistent storage after actor is created…