Inside the Actor Model — How Akka Works Internally
Nov 2, 2025 · 5 min read · In the previous post, we explored the Actor Model — what it is, why it was introduced, and how it solves problems of concurrency and state management in modern systems. Now, let’s take the next step.You’ve met the idea of actors — but how does it act...
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Implementing the Actor Model in .NET without Akka
Aug 31, 2025 · 4 min read · The actor model has been a proven way of achieving high throughput, fault isolation, and scalability since Erlang popularised it in telecoms decades ago. While libraries such as Akka.NET exist, many people hesitate to adopt them because of external d...
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What is Actor Model?
Sep 21, 2024 · 4 min read · The Actor Model is a conceptual model for dealing with concurrent computation. It was introduced by Carl Hewitt in the 1970s and has become a foundational model for designing distributed systems, particularly those requiring high levels of concurrenc...
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AKKA Basic Introduction
Sep 18, 2023 · 3 min read · You can see about intro of AKKA on the below medium blog, I will focus on coding stuff.https://medium.com/techno101/introduction-to-akka-java-7d909456e6bd Setup Akka You should first import AKKA into your project to use it. To import add the below li...
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How to make a simple application with Akka Cluster
Feb 26, 2019 · 12 min read · By Luca Florio If you read my previous story about Scalachain, you probably noticed that it is far from being a distributed system. It lacks all the features to properly work with other nodes. Add to it that a blockchain composed by a single node is ...
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An introduction to Akka HTTP routing
Dec 19, 2018 · 10 min read · By Miguel Lopez Akka HTTP’s routing DSL might seem complicated at first, but once you get the hang of it you’ll see how powerful it is. In this tutorial we will focus on creating routes and their structure. We won’t cover parsing to and from JSON, we...
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If you’re still using Synchronized, you should try Akka Actor instead — here’s why
Sep 11, 2018 · 5 min read · By Martin Budi Synchronized is Java’s traditional concurrency mechanism. Although it is probably not something we see often these days, it is still fueling many libraries. The problem is, synchronized is both blocking and complicated. In this article...
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How you can build a Hello World API with Scala and Akka HTTP
Aug 28, 2018 · 5 min read · By Miguel Lopez Yes, it’s still a thing. _Photo by [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/photos/B3l0g6HLxr8?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText" rel="noopener" target="_blank" title="">Blake Connally on <a href="https://unsp...
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