Or subtitle: Maybe distributed programming is no longer a programming problem? (For the obvious impaired: This is meant to be more thought provoking than an actual truth) Over the last decade we have seen the emergence of cloud computing, multi core, and micro service architectures. Due to this there have been a trend for new…More
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Wire – Writing one of the fastest .NET serializers
First of all, there is no such thing as “the fastest” serializer, it is all contextual.But under some conditions, I would however argue that Wire is, by far, the fastest of all the .NET serializers out there. Given the following POCO type. Round tripping one million objects of this type, that is, serializing and then…More
Actor based distributed transactions
One question that often shows up when talking about the Actor Model, is how to deal with distributed transactions. In .NET there is the concept of MSDTC, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator, that can be used to solve this problem when working with things like SQL Server etc. The MS Research project Orleans (MS Azure Actor…More
Akka.NET – Concurrency control
Time to break the silence! A lot of things have happened since I last wrote. I’ve got a new job at nethouse.se as developer and mentor. Akka.NET have been doing some crazy progress the last few months. When I last wrote, we were only two developers, now, we are about 10 core developers. The project also have…More
Deploying actors with Akka.NET
We have now ported both the code and configuration based deployment features of Akka. This means that you can now use Akka.NET to deploy actors and routers on remote nodes either via code or configuration. For those new to akka what does this mean? Let’s say that we are building a simple local actor system.…More
