Akka.NET API Docs

• 1.0 Stable API

Akka.NET Framework

Introduction

• What is Akka?
• Why Akka?
• Getting Started
• The Obligatory Hello World
• Use-case and Deployment Scenarios
  • Console
  • ASP.NET
  • Windows Service
  • Azure PaaS Worker Role
• Examples of use-cases for Akka

Akka.NET Concepts

• Terminology, Concepts
• Actor Systems
• What is an Actor?
• What is a Message?
  • Immutability
• Supervision and Monitoring
• Actor References, Paths and Addresses
• Location Transparency
• Message Delivery Reliability
• Configuration
  • HOCON

Working with Actors

• Creating your first Actor
• Defining an Actor class
• What's in an Actor
• Creating actors with Props
• Handling Messages
• Sending Messages
• Actor lifecycle
• Dispatchers
• Mailboxes
• Switchable Behaviors
• Stashing Messages
• Stopping Actors

Actors

• Working with actors
• F# API
• ReceiveActors
• Finite State Machines
• Persistence
• Fault Tolerance
• Props
• Receive timeout
• Dependency injection
• Routers

Akka.Remote

• Akka.Remote Overview
  • Use Cases
  • Enabling Akka.Remote
  • Remote Addressing
  • Connecting Remote Systems
• Transports
  • Built-in Transports
  • Custom Transports
  • Running Multiple Transports Simultaneously
• Remote Messaging
  • Serialization
  • RemoteActorRefs
• Deploying Actors Remotely
  • When to Use Remote Deployment
• Detecting & Handling Network Failures (DeathWatch)
• Network Security

Akka.Cluster

• Akka.Cluster Overview
  • What is a Cluster?
  • Benefits
  • Use Cases
  • Terminology
  • Enabling Akka.Cluster
  • Cluster Gossip
  • Nodes
  • How a Cluster Forms
• Cluster Routing
  • How Routers Use Cluster Gossip
  • Cluster Routing Strategies
  • Types of Clustered Routers
  • Clustered Router Configuration
• Cluster Configuration
  • Critical Configuration Flags
  • Specifying Minimum Cluster Sizes
• Accessing the Cluster ActorSystem Extension
  • Getting a Reference to the Cluster
  • Working With Cluster Gossip
  • Cluster Gossip Event Types
  • Getting Cluster State

Networking

• Serialization
• Akka I/O

Utilities

• EventBus
• Logging
  • Using Serilog
• Scheduler
• Circuit Breaker

Testing

• Using the MultiNode Testkit for Testing Distributed ActorSystems

Information for Akka Developers

• Building and Distributing Akka.NET
• Getting Access to Nightly Akka.NET Builds
• Contributor guidelines
• Documentation Guidelines
• Team

Project Information

• Licenses
• Sponsors
• Project

Additional Information

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Online resources
• Books