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
Feb
21
2019
We are happy to announce the release of Alpakka Kafka 1.0-RC2
Feb
13
2019
We are happy to announce the 2.5.21 patch release of Akka 2.5
Feb
12
2019
While stream processing has become ubiquitous in the vocabulary of developers, the most important feature of such systems is often glossed over or not focused on nearly enough when introducing...
Feb
05
2019
Supervision works differently in Akka Typed compared to the original actor implementation, in this excerpt from the course Programming Reactive Systems lecturer Roland Kuhn explains why. The actor model became...
