This is a common scenario I run into, where I have two (or more) actors getting some data asynchronously, and then I need to do an operation when they're all finished. What is the common pattern t...

Building a web application distributed over several nodes in a cluster, I want to explore wether we can do content search (not full-text search but data queries) using Lucene.net. From what I can ...

I'm trying to understand the Query side of CQRS in a Catalog Management application built with AKKA.NET. I have a UI which needs to show all the products in a grid that follows a criteria. The crit...

I'm trying to implement a some sort of console writer for all of my actors. Here's my code: class ConsoleWriterActor : ReceiveActor { public ConsoleWriterActor() { Receive<object>(s =>...

I am using Akka.Net in a very simple client server configuration. Nothing very advanced at this time. After about 3 or 4 days of sending messages back and forth it seems that the entire system gets...

There is a configured ActorSystem with actors organized hierarchically as the following: /user /processes /process1 /process2 /process3 To generate this scheme I use the next C# code: // in...

I have an existing distributed computing framework built on top of MassTransit and RabbitMQ. There is essentially a manager which responds with work based on requests. Each worker will take a certa...

I'm trying to test my Akka.NET actors, but are having some trouble with the TestKit and understanding how it works. Since there is no official documentation for unit testing in Akka.NET yet, I've ...

There are many benefits that an actor model like AKKA.net bring to the table like scalability, reactiveness, in memory-caching etc... When I tried to compare AKKA with Azure Service Bus Queues, I s...

I have successfully sent work to a pool of actors to perform my work, but now I want to do some aggregation on the results returned by all the workers. How do I know that everyone is done? The bes...

I started playing with the Actor model, and in particular with Akka.NET. Overall I think I have a good idea of what's all about, but of course the devil is in the detail. I was thinking about adopt...

Im playing with using akka.Net to develop a plugin architecture whereby each dll that contains one or more plugins is loaded into its own AppDomain and a new actor system is initialized ready to re...

In C# ReceiveActors I can just have state as private fields in the class. How should I do this in an idiomatic way with the F# API? Is this a good idea? Any alternatives? let handleMessage (mailb...

I know about PipeTo, but some stuff, like synchronous waiting on nested continuation, seems to go against the async & await way. So, my first question [1] would be: is there any 'magic' here, ...

Is there a standard pattern to deal with exceptions within actors in Akka.NET? I saw some patterns to create supervisors, but it seems the SupervisorStrategy is a way to deal with things that cann...

I created a service with a RESTful API in ASP.NET, hosted in IIS. Inside this service, I would like to create an actor system with Akka.NET. Upon creating the actor system: var actorSystem = Acto...

I'm currently trying to find the bottlenecks in our message dispatcher for Akka.NET (port of java/scala actor model framework) For those interested, it can be found here: https://github.com/akkadot...