In this episode, Aaron Stannard (@Aaronontheweb) comes on to talk about his open source project, Akka.NET. This is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on .NET and Mono. [01:35] - Implementations and uses of the actor model[03:13] - What is an actor?[10:04] - Actors in the cloud[12:05] - Running Akka .NET on premise or in cloud[14:31] - Use cases for Akka .NET[17:25] - Supported versions of .NET[18:45] - Running Akka .NET in containersCheck out the links below to learn more about the Akka .NET project. PetabridgeAkka .NET on GitHubAkka .NET BootcampAkka .NET Code Samples