Akka.NET or Alternative

[Andy Czerwonka]

Hello All,

I've been asked to port our Java stack to .NET.  We use Akka to facilitate the distribution of our optimization/computation load across cores and eventually a cluster or nodes. I'm looking into Akka.NET and just wondering if the community this this is a viable port? Are there other products in the .NET ecosystem that I should consider for this use case?

-andy

[Vitor Vieira]

Hi Andy,

I highly recommend the Orleans project, https://github.com/dotnet/orleans as a Akka.NET substitute if you have any reason to don't use it.

If the team responsible to execute the porting have some experience with functional programming, or have previous exposure to the Akka framework,  I recommend to use F# together with Akka.NET or Orleans(avoid C# if you can).

It is a very powerful combination

Rgds,

Vitor Vieira

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[Konrad Malawski]

We know the fine chaps over at Akka.NET a bit and I think you should give them a try :-)

It's hard for me to say if the impl is nice and idiomatic for .NET, however as you seem to have an Akka app migrating should be rather simple – they're very much 1:1 with "Akka.JVM" as far as I remember.

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[Konrad Malawski]

Also... kind of surprising move: from JVM to .NET, I've seen more of the opposite direction in the past.

I suspect it's not much about Akka itself but some organisational movements or hiring things?

[Andy Czerwonka]

Thanks Vitor - Orleans looks promising.

[Jamie Allen]

One thing to remember with Orleans - it makes completely different guarantees than Akka.  Where Akka and Erlang focus on the lowest possible costs so that you choose when to pay them, Orleans loads them in up front.  That can make it easier on developers, but likely not as efficient.

Good luck!

[Jamie Allen]

Here's an analysis of Orleans I wrote when it was announced.

[Roland Kuhn]

Ah, this reminds me: together with the core Orleans developers I did a comparison of the two approaches, take a look at https://github.com/akka/akka-meta/blob/master/ComparisonWithOrleans.md for in-depth information.

Regards,

Roland

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