This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on July 23rd, 2014. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it. I shut down MarkedUp in November, 2014.

The MarkedUp team has had experience developing SDKs, high-performance APIs, working with Cassandra / Hadoop, and service-oriented software for several years. However, when we started laying out the blueprint for MarkedUp In-app Marketing we knew that it would require a radically different set of tools than the traditional stateless HTTP APIs we’d been used to developing for some time.

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Picking up where I left off in the previous Helios 2.0 diary entry… After clearing the decks of all of any code I wasn’t 100% certain we’d be keeping, I began writing new code.

IChannel, IChannelConfig, and more

I immediately began by porting Netty’s Channel...

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To my eternal shame, I’ve never blogged about one of the most important open source projects I’m involved in: Helios. Helios is for all intents and purposes a .NET port of Java’s wildly successful Netty project, the reactive high-performance socket server...

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This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on February 19th, 2013. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it.

When we first made MarkedUp Analytics available...

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Last weekend I found voat.co on the /r/dotnet subreddit, one of the places I frequent for news and happenings related to...

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I’ve done a bit of a “press tour” for Akka.NET since we released Akka.NET v1.0 at the beginning of April and I wanted to share a couple of the interviews I’ve done in the .NET community since.

Hanselminutes: Inside the Akka.NET open source...

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The Petabridge team (all two of us) just wrapped up a big two weeks. We launched Akka.NET V1.0 and then traveled to Portland to talk about .NET open source software at .NET Fringe.