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Akka.NET v1.0 Documentation

Introduction

• What is Akka.NET?
  • Akka & Typesafe
• Why Akka.NET?
• Akka.NET Quickstart
  • C# Quickstart
  • F# Quickstart
• What are some real-world use cases for Akka.NET?
• FAQ
  • Mono Support
  • Remoting & Clustering
  • Contributing
  • Commercial Support
• Learning Resources
  • Akka.NET Bootcamp
  • OSS Akka.NET Examples
  • Videos
  • Blogs & Articles
  • Podcasts & Interviews
  • Talks and Presentations

Akka.NET Concepts and Terminology

• 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

Working with Actors

• Creating your first Actor
  • C#
  • F#
• Defining an Actor class
  • ReceiveActor
  • UntypedActor
• What's in an actor?
  • State
  • Behavior(s)
  • Mailbox
  • Children
  • Supervisor Strategy
  • Context
• ActorRefs and ActorSelections
  • Location Transparency
  • Explan how actors can be restarted independently of actorrefs, and this is why they're cool
• Creating actors with Props
  • Props
    • What's the point?
    • Serializability
    • Role in restarts
  • System.ActorOf
  • Creating Children with Context.ActorOf
• Handling Messages
  • ReceiveActor
  • UntypedActor
    • if, else if, else - type interference
    • PatternMatch
• Sending Messages
  • Immutability
  • Tell
  • Ask
  • Forward
  • Replying to messages
• Looking up Actors
  • ActorSelection
• Stopping Actors
  • PoisonPill
  • Graceful Stop
• What happens when an actor dies?
  • Unplanned Termination ("Crashes")
    • Supervision strategies in action
    • Restarts
    • What happens to messages during restarts?
      • Unprocessed messages
      • Message that caused the restart
    • What happens to children during restarts?
  • Planned Termination
    • How to stop an actor
    • DeathWatch
      • What happens to messages during termination?
        • Unprocessed messages
        • Message that caused the restart
    • What happens to children after termination?
• The Actor Lifecycle
  • PreStart
  • PreRestart
  • PostStop
  • PostRestart
  • DeathWatch
• Switchable Behaviors
  • Become
  • BecomeStacked
  • UnbecomeStacked