New Video / Blog Post: "Run Local Akka .NET Clusters with .NET Aspire"
The biggest win here is that debugging / orchestrating a cluster is trivial now thanks to Aspire + Akka .Management.
Links in next post.
Codex proposes adding locking, status flags, and a bunch of shared-task coordination inside a hosted service for doing skill sync in Netclaw.
Me: "you know we have access to Akka .NET actors right? Just use those."
* Removed 318 total LOC
* Eliminated several failure classes
* Made the code readable and understandable
You should be using actors more. Your agents should be using them more.
ALT SkillSync Akka.NET actor - powers Netclaw's ability to synchronize remote skill feeds
Akka .NET 1.5.71 is out.
This maintenance release includes targeted fixes for Cluster Sharding recovery, remoting, TestKit / multi-node testing, and ClusterClientDiscovery.
If you’re running any of those components, review the notes and plan the upgrade:
github.com/akkadotnet/akka.n…
ALT Akka.NET 1.5.71 maintenance release. Fixes for Cluster Sharding recovery, remoting, TestKit and multi-node testing, and ClusterClientDiscovery.
Imagine you have to schedule a big burst of data-intensive jobs in short order. How do you achieve this with minimal fuss? In this post we show how to use Akka .NET to achieve it.
hubs.li/Q04tTHrJ0 via Aaron Stannard @Aaronontheweb
We've launched official Aspire support for Akka .NET and it's live on NuGet: Akka.Aspire and Akka.Aspire .Hosting
This is what it takes to launch a 3 node cluster (using Redis discovery - have another example using Azure that's about the same size)
Demo on-stream today @ 12CDT
ALT Akka.Aspire.Hosting configuration for Akka.NET
Halo Industries has two open Akka .NET engineer positions - they use Akka for machine control and robotics!
More details here: halo-industries.com/careers/
Comment I left on an /r/dotnet thread RE: "what project should I choose to get started learning Akka .NET?"
TL;DR; real-time applications like live data viz, multi-player games, chat, notification systems, etc are it.
They will forever change how you think about programming.
I'll be available for remote/hybrid contracts starting in the next month or so. Engineering roles leveraging functional programming (F#), AkkaDotNet preferred. Reach me here: linkedin.com/in/richardjhard…
New blog: "Building a Distributed Job Scheduler with Akka .NET"
Durable entity solutions such as Akka.Cluster.Sharding / Orleans are great for distributing entities, but not for distributing jobs
We need something a tad different. Easy to do with Akka.Cluster + local actors
ALT Distributed job scheduler using Akka.NET + ASP.NET Core SSE
That looks exactly what I did while I worked with AkkaNET.
Working with sensors, IOT, and different types of manufacturers is really time consuming. Creating an simulador for each one of them is also a Good blueprint on how to implement such integrations.
Tomorrow at 12pm Chicago Time - join us our on YouTube channel for our July @AkkaDotNET Community Standup, during which we'll discuss the amazing progress we're making on v1.6 and how Akka.Remote is _at least_ 2.1x faster for benchmarked workloads.
Some updates on the performance work we're doing on @AkkaDotNET v1.6.
Introduced multi-plexing over a single TCP connection and we're now pushing ~2.7m msg/s over a single TCP connection. That's using "toy" messages like bare strings, byte arrays, long integers, etc.
New YouTube video: "Debug Akka.Streams in Production with OpenTelemetry"
Covers the new OTEL support we added for visualizing @AkkaDotNET streams in Akka .NET v1.5.66.
We capture the full rendering of the real streams flow so you can properly debug and measure these.
June @AkkaDotNET Community Standup: "Agents Are Actors" featuring Netclaw.
Going to get into the internals of using actors to build LLM agents and why they're the obviously best tool for the job. See you at noon Chicago Time Wednesday.
Link in next post.
ALT "Agents Are Actors" - June 2026 Akka.NET Community Standup featuring Netclaw https://netclaw.dev/
New video / blog post: "Why We Removed FluentAssertions from @AkkaDotNET "
Akka .NET 1.5.64 removed FluentAssertions from every TestKit package.
FA went commercial, and we were the 2nd-largest consumer of it on NuGet. No shade. But we won't hand a commercial dependency to every Akka .NET user.
Akka .NET stays free + permissionless. Here's why:
piped.video/watch?v=id4yJBe4…