Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala
Why Akka? Try AkkaAkka 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.
Organizations with extreme requirements rely on Akka and other Lightbend technologies. Read about their experiences in our case studies and learn more about how Lightbend can contribute to success with its commercial offerings.
See our news and articles for more good reads
Jan
22
2020
A short video about how to manage blocking in Actors
Jan
15
2020
We are happy to announce the release of Alpakka Kafka 2.0.0
Jan
07
2020
A short introduction to the Event Sourcing APIs in Akka 2.6
Dec
16
2019
A ten minute intro to Akka Cluster Sharding with slides and code walk through of the sample app in Scala
