A Simplifier success story

Simplifier chooses Akka over Node.js to build its secure, high performance low-code platform

Executive summary

Simplifier provides a low-code development platform that modernizes existing legacy systems and speeds digital transformation. Akka is the abstraction layer between users and legacy systems, enabling high performance, concurrency, and reliability.

 

Akka @ Simplifier
Elasticity Agility Resilience
Can scale to support any volume of data transfer.  Meets the needs of diverse industries, spanning more than 1000 different applications. Supports mission-critical applications that can't go down under any circumstances.

When competing for business, Akka provides Simplifier with a key competitive differentiator compared to other low-code platform options.

Christian Kleinschroth
CTO. Simplifier

The challenge

Simplifier’s unique approach to low-code development technology required a management layer capable of integrating with customer legacy systems across a diverse landscape of industries and use cases. Meeting stringent EU data security and compliance regulatory demands and 24/7 uptime were also critical.

The solution

The Simplifier team initially investigated other solutions that competitive low-code platforms leverage, such as Node.js, but they presented security, availability, and performance issues.

Akka provides the abstraction, resilience, and agility requirements of the project. It eliminates complex configurations, solving several integration and management issues that enable the team to focus on app functionality rather than the complexities of a distributed system. Akka delivers:

  • Concurrency and parallelism: Supports continuous streaming of multiple requests and tasks. Akka simplifies managing multiple threads, ensuring safe concurrency without locks or complex synchronization.
  • Resilient systems: A fault-tolerant platform. Akka’s high performance and low latency are key differentiators.
  • Ease of development: Abstraction of backend complexity enables the Simplifier team to focus on business logic while Akka handles the rest.

The results

Simplifier continues to realize significant growth, booking millions of Euros a year in ARR while serving more than 100 customers across manufacturing, pharma, automotive, and other industries.

By adopting Akka, the Simplifier team has achieved:

  • High performance: Consistent support of 2,000 concurrent user sessions and load tests supporting as many as 20,000 users simultaneously.
  • Scalability: Capable of meeting any demands for customer data volume. One major automotive company can transfer data from its manufacturing facility to the cloud at a rate of 1GB per hour all day, every day.
  • Serving a diverse set of industries and applications: Supports more than 1000 different types of applications across myriad of use cases–from cutting-edge AI to any legacy systems.
  • Reliable service with guaranteed uptime: Zero downtime.
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