Akka.NET Best Practices

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Designing actor communication patterns
• Deciding between EventStream and DistributedPubSub
• Implementing error handling in actors
• Understanding supervision strategies
• Choosing between Props patterns and DependencyResolver
• Designing work distribution across nodes
• Creating testable actor systems that can run with or without cluster infrastructure
• Abstracting over Cluster Sharding for local testing scenarios

Reference Files

• work-distribution-patterns.md: Database queues, Akka.Streams throttling, outbox pattern
• cluster-local-abstractions.md: GenericChildPerEntityParent, IPubSubMediator, execution mode wiring
• async-cancellation-patterns.md: Actor-scoped CancellationToken, linked CTS, timeout handling