Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala
Why Akka? Try Akka Go ServerlessAkka is the implementation of the Actor Model on the JVM.
Actors and Streams let you build systems that scale up, using the resources of a server more efficiently, and out, using multiple servers.
Building on the principles of The Reactive Manifesto Akka allows you to write systems that self-heal and stay responsive in the face of failures.
Up to 50 million msg/sec on a single machine. Small memory footprint; ~2.5 million actors per GB of heap.
Distributed systems without single points of failure. Load balancing and adaptive routing across nodes. Event Sourcing and CQRS with Cluster Sharding. Distributed Data for eventual consistency using CRDTs.
Asynchronous non-blocking stream processing with backpressure. Fully async and streaming HTTP server and client provides a great platform for building microservices. Streaming integrations with Alpakka.
Lightbend is the company behind Akka, used by development teams to build the most demanding, globally distributed, cloud native application environments and streaming data pipelines. Global 2000 enterprises turn to Lightbend products like Akka Serverless and Akka Platform to support their most business-critical initiatives.
Build stateful, high performance, back-end services and APIs on a powerful serverless PaaS
Get the full power of Akka reactive microservices frameworks and runtimes on prem or in the cloud
Organizations with extreme requirements rely on Akka and other Lightbend technologies—read about some of the successful journeys and case studies from Lightbend customers.
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Oct
15
2021
We are pleased to announce Akka 2.6.17
Sep
14
2021
How Akka gRPC went from nearly last to
Aug
31
2021
Announcing Akka gRPC 2.1.0
Aug
19
2021
We are excited to announce Akka 2.6.16, which includes a new Durable State feature.
