Customer Story
How one developer built and operates a distributed employee engagement platform serving 20,000+ users.
TeamMood built its anonymous employee feedback platform on Akka — achieving 100% uptime over 8+ years with a single developer managing the entire distributed system serving 20,000+ users.
Akka ROI Scorecard
developer built and continues to operate the entire distributed platform.
uptime — not a single crash in more than 8 years of production operation.
users served on a single-server platform that can easily scale with growth.
Business outcome: ISO 27001 certified platform delivering anonymous employee insights to team leaders worldwide.
TeamMood started as a single developer building an employee feedback platform that needed to securely manage anonymous mood data while meeting global data privacy standards. The original implementation using Springboot and Java was complex and unable to provide the scale, security, and ease of management required.
“Akka made it easy for me to build a scalable system supporting tens of thousands of users,” says Nicolas Deverge, CEO and Founder. “Akka abstracts a great deal of complexity I would otherwise be forced to manage manually. For a micro-sized team like mine, that’s simply not an option.”
Akka enabled TeamMood to quickly build a distributed system without complex configuration. The non-blocking approach to concurrency delivered better resource utilization and scalability compared to the original Springboot implementation.
Akka abstracts backend complexity — managing multiple threads safely without locks or complex synchronization — enabling full focus on business logic. The platform runs on a single server with the ability to add more as needed.
Security was critical: TeamMood handles anonymous employee data subject to global privacy standards. Akka supports the security requirements needed for ISO 27001 certification.
Speed to production. A single developer built and continues to manage the entire distributed platform — no DevOps team, no infrastructure engineers.
Scale. 20,000+ users served on a single-server platform designed to scale horizontally as the user base grows.
Cost to operate. 100% uptime over 8+ years with zero crashes — eliminating the need for dedicated operations staff.
Business impact. ISO 27001 certified platform delivering secure, anonymous employee mood insights to team leaders worldwide.
Employee engagement monitoring is a natural fit for agentic AI. On the Akka Agentic AI Platform, each team becomes a governed agent that continuously monitors mood patterns, detects emerging trends, and proactively surfaces insights to team leaders before issues escalate.
These engagement agents can identify patterns across teams and time periods, recommend interventions based on historical effectiveness, and maintain strict anonymity guarantees through Akka’s durable state model. With event sourcing, every insight and recommendation is auditable while preserving individual privacy. Enterprises build on the Akka Agentic AI Platform directly, or have a system delivered and operated through Akka Specify.
