Akka.NET is quite opinionated in terms of persistence. Paraphrasing Henry Ford’s famous quote: You can persist your data any way you want in Akka.NET, so long as you use event sourcing. But what if you don’t want to? Perhaps the problem you are trying to solve doesn’t overlap with this particular mental model, and yet you think you can still gain a lot by leveraging Akka. Then you have to bake your own solution. In this blog post, I would like to show you one way of integrating Akka.NET with an ORM. To k...

Integrating Akka.NET and ASP.NET Core can be quite tricky. In this blog post, I would like to demonstrate how to make these two technologies work together smoothly.

In the previous post, I’ve briefly described part of a process of persisting state of our actor. I’ve told you about storing events and I’ve mentioned things called snapshots. This post is entirely about them.

In one of my posts about Akka.NET I’ve covered actor selections and paths. Sadly I’ve skipped one rather important part regarding allowed characters for actor paths and what to do if our name cannot be used for creating an actor. And recently I’ve received a question about why I’m creating actors using encoded string. This is the cause.

One of the concepts of actor model that could be hard to grasp at the begining is fact that we will not operate on direct reference to actor instance. This can be a bit confusing before you’ll get used to it but by not using any direct references you’re sure to achieve very good level of encapsulation.

In previous post I’ve explained briefly what actor model is and why it’s so fun. Today we’ll create our ActorSystem instance, learn what it is and send first messages to them. I hope it will be nice and easy start.

Akka.NET simple example with Github Api Posted on by Michal Franc In this post I want to a simple introduction to Akka.NET using an example app based on Github api. I have been diving into Akka .NET lately. My first encounter with this technology was on Vaughn Vernon workshop in Krakow. The main event had couple of side presentation and one of them was about Akka project in Java world. It was a magic to me. Couple years later, I accidentally found ( probably on twitter ) Bartosz Sypytkowski blog and ...