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99.9999% app availability

Application resilience is key to business resilience. Akka reduces the cost and complexity to achieve up to 99.9999% availability without sacrificing performance and scale. Read the blog to learn more.

Multi-region replicated apps

With Akka, create multi-region stateful applications that ensure low latency, no-downtime disaster recovery, seamless upgrades, and effortless cross-cloud migrations.

Announcing Akka 3

Akka 3 is here! Discover the next-gen platform for building responsive apps with simplified operations, enhanced flexibility, and groundbreaking features. Start building at akka.io.

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99.9999% app availability

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Multi-region replicated apps

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Announcing Akka 3

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Workflows with Akka

Andrzej Ludwikowski

Andrzej Ludwikowski

Lightbend is now Akka

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Team Akka

Team Akka

Webinar: introducing Akka 3

Team Akka

Team Akka

Lightbend launches Akka 3 to make it easy to build and run apps that react to change; rebrands company as Akka

Team Akka

Team Akka

InfoQ webinar: the architect's guide to elasticity

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Lightbend and Scalac partner to enable enterprises to leverage the power of Akka

Team Akka

Team Akka

Akka license keys and a no SPAM promise

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

O’Reilly webinar: transcending the barriers to elasticity

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka innovations: multi-cloud, edge, and security enhancements

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Benchmarking database sharding in Akka

Andrzej Ludwikowski

Andrzej Ludwikowski

Not all CVE fixes are created equal

Michael Nash

Michael Nash

Akka 24.05 - fully replicated entities across regions, edge, and clouds

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

Building Zero Trust security into your Akka applications

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka 24.05 — the edge unleashed

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka with Java 21: less is more

Eduardo Pinto

Eduardo Pinto

The database is the bottleneck!

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

Is community-backed open source software worth the risk?

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Webinar: Akka 24.05 release highlights

Team Akka

Team Akka

Lightbend releases Akka 24.05 with a focus on security, performance, and edge efficiency

Team Akka

Team Akka

Akka 24.05: more security. More performance. More efficiency.

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Open source is at a crossroads

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Lightbend aims to democratize distributed systems for developers

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Cloud architecture will fail you. Distributed application architecture will not.

Tyler Jewell

Tyler Jewell

Akka edging further

Christopher Hunt

Christopher Hunt

2x improvement in latency in Swiggy data science platform

Team Akka

Team Akka

Boundaries between cloud and edge computing will continue to blur, predicts Jonas Bonér of Akka

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka closes FY24 with record growth

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka Edge: shaping the future of industry with edge computing

Aakash Sharan

Aakash Sharan

2024 predictions for the cloud native market

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka Edge: exploring scale to zero

Peter Vlugter

Peter Vlugter

Deep dive of event-driven communication between edge and cloud

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

What is Akka Edge?

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

Webinar: Akka Edge sample project overview

Johan Andrén

Johan Andrén

Lightbend announces the industry’s first programming model enabling application development for both cloud and edge

Team Akka

Team Akka

Akka Edge: unifying the cloud and edge

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Reactive programming vs. reactive systems

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Microservices unleashed: evolving mission-critical applications in the cloud at lower cost, risk, and complexity

Team Akka

Team Akka

5 reactive microservices use cases that power business innovation

Team Akka

Team Akka

Fast, lean, and unbreakable: building cloud apps with Akka and Kubernetes

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Get productive with Akka Streams

Janik Dotzel

Janik Dotzel

Celebrating a milestone: Akka surpasses 1 billion downloads

James Townley

James Townley

The easy button for durable state queries

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

Adaptive stream parallelization for fun and throughput

Levi Ramsey

Levi Ramsey

Johan Andrén

Johan Andrén

Faster and smoother rolling updates for Akka Clusters in Kubernetes

Eduardo Pinto

Eduardo Pinto

Lightbend launches Akka Distributed Cluster for next-gen edge computing across multiple data centers

Team Akka

Team Akka

Akka: enabling the cloud to edge continuum

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Benchmarking Kafka vs. Akka brokerless pub/sub

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

Lightbend achieves SOC 2 compliance

Michael Nash

Michael Nash

Ditch the message broker, go faster

Patrik Nordwall

Patrik Nordwall

Akka 22.10 released

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Lightbend changes its software licensing model for Akka technology

Team Akka

Team Akka

Why we are changing the license for Akka

Jonas Bonér

Jonas Bonér

Akka gRPC update delivers 1200% performance improvement (so what happened?)

Johannes Rudolph

Webinar: Putting the ‘I’ in IoT – building digital twins with Akka microservices

Hugh McKee

Hugh McKee

Design techniques for building stateful, cloud-native applications: Part 4 – message delivery & reliability

Hugh McKee

Hugh McKee

Design techniques for building stateful, cloud-native applications: Part 3 – messages, CQRS, and event sourcing

Team Akka

Team Akka

Design techniques for building stateful cloud-native applications: Part 2 – distributed state

Sean Walsh

Sean Walsh

Design techniques for building stateful, cloud-native applications: Part 1 - resiliency, recoverability, and scalability

Hugh McKee

Hugh McKee

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