akka.net

# Akka.NET

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**[Akka.NET](https://getakka.net/)** is a .NET port of the popular [Akka project](https://akka.io/) from the Scala / Java community. We are an idiomatic [.NET implementation of the actor model](https://petabridge.com/blog/akkadotnet-what-is-an-actor/) built on top of the .NET Common Language Runtime.

**Using the v1.6 betas? [Start here](GETTING_STARTED_V1.6.md).**

* **Website**: [https://getakka.net/](https://getakka.net/)
* **Twitter** 🐦: [AkkaDotNet](https://twitter.com/AkkaDotNet)
* **Discussions** 📣: [Akka.NET GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/akkadotnet/akka.net/discussions)
* **Chat** 💬: [Akka.NET on Discord](https://discord.gg/GSCfPwhbWP)
* **StackOverflow** ✔️: [Akka.NET on StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/akka.net)

Akka.NET is a [.NET Foundation](https://dotnetfoundation.org/) 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 `lock`s or any other shared-memory synchronization mechanisms.
2. **Stream Processing** - Akka.NET actors and [Akka.Streams](https://getakka.net/articles/streams/introduction.html) 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](https://getakka.net/articles/persistence/architecture.html), used by actors to make their state re-entrant and recoverable across restarts or migrations between nodes, natively supports event sourcing. [Akka.Persistence.Query](https://getakka.net/articles/persistence/persistence-query.html) can be used to compute CQRS-style projections and materialized views from Akka.Persistence data.
5. **Location Transparency** - [Akka.Remote](https://getakka.net/articles/remoting/index.html) makes it simple for actors in remo