There is a newer version of this package available.
See the version list below for details.
dotnet add package Akka --version 1.5.3
NuGet\Install-Package Akka -Version 1.5.3
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package.
<PackageReference Include="Akka" Version="1.5.3" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package.
paket add Akka --version 1.5.3
#r "nuget: Akka, 1.5.3"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package.
// Install Akka as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=Akka&version=1.5.3

// Install Akka as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=Akka&version=1.5.3

Akka.NET

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Akka.NET is a .NET port of the popular Akka project from the Scala / Java community. We are an idiomatic .NET implementation of the actor model built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime.

Akka.NET is a .NET Foundation project.

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How is Akka.NET Used?

Akka.NET can be used in-process or inside large, distributed real-time systems; we support a wide variety of use cases.

Akka.NET can be used to solve the following types of problems:

  1. Concurrency - Akka.NET actors only process messages one-at-a-time and they do so in first in, first out (FIFO) order; this means that any application state internal to an actor is automatically thread-safe without having to use locks or any other shared-memory synchronization mechanisms.
  2. Stream Processing - Akka.NET actors and Akka.Streams make it easy to build streaming applications, used for processing incoming streams of data or incoming streams of live events such as UI or network events inside native applications.
  3. Event-Driven Programming - actors make it easy to build event-driven applications, as actors' message-processing routines naturally express these types of designs.
  4. Event Sourcing and CQRS - Akka.Persistence, used by actors to make their state re-entrant and recoverable across restarts or migrations between nodes, natively supports event sourcing. Akka.Persistence.Query can be used to compute CQRS-style projections and materialized views from Akka.Persistence data.
  5. Location Transparency - Akka.Remote makes it simple for actors in remote processes to transparently communicate with each other.
  6. Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems - Akka.Cluster, Akka.Cluster.Sharding, and other tools built on top of Akka.Cluster make it possible to build highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems by leveraging peer-to-peer programming models with topology-aware message routing and distribution.
  7. Low Latency, High Throughput - Akka.NET aims to be low latency and high throughput, processing 10s millions of messages per second in-memory and hundreds of thousands of messages per second over remote connections.

Where Can I Learn Akka.NET?

You can start by taking the Akka.NET Bootcamp, but there are many other great learning resources for Akka.NET Online.

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Install Akka.NET via NuGet

If you want to include Akka.NET in your project, you can install it directly from NuGet

To install Akka.NET Distributed Actor Framework, run the following command in the Package Manager Console

PM> Install-Package Akka.Hosting

Akka.Hosting includes the base Akka NuGet package and also provides an easy interface to integrate Akka.NET with the most-used parts of the Microsoft.Extensions ecosystem: Configuration, Logging, Hosting, and DependencyInjection. We encourage developers to adopt it.

And if you need F# support:

PM> Install-Package Akka.FSharp

Akka.NET Project Templates

To create your own Akka.NET projects using our templates (Akka.Templates), install them via the dotnet CLI:

dotnet new install "Akka.Templates::*"

This will make our templates available via dotnet new on the CLI and as new project templates inside any .NET IDE such as Visual Studio or JetBrains Rider. You can view the full list of templates included in our package here: https://github.com/akkadotnet/akkadotnet-templates#available-templates

Builds

Please see Building Akka.NET.

To access nightly Akka.NET builds, please see the instructions here.

Support

If you need help getting started with Akka.NET, there's a number of great community resources online:

If you and your company are interested in getting professional Akka.NET support, you can contact Petabridge for dedicated Akka.NET support.

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NuGet packages (191)

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Akka.Remote The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

Remoting support for Akka.NET. Allows actors to communicate over the network.

Akka.Persistence The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

Persistence for Akka.NET actors. Allows actors to persist and recover their state in a database-agnostic fashion.

Akka.TestKit The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

You need a Akka.TestKit.* package! Add the one appropriate for the test framework you use instead. For example: Akka.TestKit.Xunit or Akka.TestKit.VsTest. This package only contains base functionality for writing tests for the Akka.NET framework.

Akka.Logger.Serilog The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

Serilog logging adapter for Akka.NET.

Akka.Streams The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

Streaming support for Akka.NET. Introduces a LINQ-like interface for writing asynchronous, back-pressure-aware streams built on top of Akka.NET actors.

GitHub repositories (12)

Showing the top 5 popular GitHub repositories that depend on Akka:

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neo-project/neo
NEO Smart Economy
petabridge/akka-bootcamp
Self-paced training course to learn Akka.NET fundamentals from scratch
petabridge/NBench
Performance benchmarking and testing framework for .NET applications :chart_with_upwards_trend:
ThembisileNGQ/Akkatecture
a cqrs and event sourcing framework for dotnet core using akka.net
merken/Prise
A .NET Plugin Framework.
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0.6.4 5,978 9/3/2014
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[Persistence.Sqlite: Bump Microsoft.Data.SQLite to 7.0.5](https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/pull/6643)
[Serialization.Hyperion: Fix bug: surrogate and known type provider not applied correctly by Setup](https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/pull/6655)
[Akka: Bump Microsoft.Extensions.ObjectPool to 7.0.5](https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/pull/6644)
[Persistence.Sql.Common: Add transaction isolation level to SQL queries](https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/pull/6654)
SQL Transaction Isolation Level Setting**
In 1.5.3, we're introducing fine-grained control over transaction isolation level inside the `Akka.Persistence.Sql.Common` common library. This setting will be propagated to the rest of the SQL persistence plugin ecosystem and the `Akka.Hosting` package in their next release version.
Four new HOCON settings are introduced:
`akka.persistence.journal.{plugin-name}.read-isolation-level`
`akka.persistence.journal.{plugin-name}.write-isolation-level`
`akka.persistence.snapshot-store.{plugin-name}.read-isolation-level`
`akka.persistence.snapshot-store.{plugin-name}.write-isolation-level`
you can go to the [official Microsoft documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.isolationlevel?#fields) to read more about these isolation level settings.
If you want to see the [full set of changes made in Akka.NET v1.5.3, click here](https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/milestone/85?closed=1).
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