In this self-paced, virtual course from Lightbend Academy, you’ll learn about Akka Cluster Sharding and its various features as you convert a stateless microservice into a stateful one.

In this post, we’ll uncover four unique technical benefits of building distributed stateful applications with Akka, a popular open-source runtime used by Global 5,000 companies like Starbucks, HPE, PayPal and more to handle their mission-critical systems.

Coupling Akka Platform with Red Hat OpenShift, organizations can build and deploy smart applications and infrastructure to deliver efficient cloud native applications on any cloud or multiple clouds—all at reduced cost.

In this talk by David Ogren, Principal Enterprise Architect at Lightbend, we draw from experiences helping our clients successfully create, migrate to, and manage cloud-native system architectures.

Akka expert Manuel Bernhardt describes a 3-month long experiment to get Akka Cluster to scale out to 10,000 nodes, breaking the previous limit of 2400 nodes running on Google Compute Engine.

This is Part 2, Project 1 of “How Akka Cluster Works”, a multi-project video series that introduces developers and architects working with Java (and Scala) to the inner workings of Akka Cluster. In Part 2: Cluster Node Lifecycles, we dive into interacting with nodes in the cluster in real-time.

With the continued growth of Akka Cluster to power cloud native applications around the world, Lightbend has recognized that the timing is right to contribute two commercial-only features to the open source core of Akka...

This is Part 1, Project 1 of “How Akka Cluster Works”, a multi-project video series that introduces developers and architects working with Java (and Scala) to the inner workings of Akka Cluster. In Part 1: Getting Started, we introduce Akka Cluster using a sample Akka Java project that includes a web dashboard.

In this fireside chat, we discuss how message delivery works between actors, nodes, and clusters, including a new feature in the latest release of Akka called Reliable Delivery.

In this series of blog posts, we introduce a proof of concept that implements a highly consistent, and performant distributed cache with a persistence backing using Akka, Cassandra, and Scala.

In this series of blog posts, we introduce a proof of concept that implements a highly consistent, and performant distributed cache with a persistence backing using Akka, Cassandra, and Scala.

In this series of blog posts, we introduce a proof of concept that implements a highly consistent, and performant distributed cache with a persistence backing using Akka, Cassandra, and Scala.

In this series of blog posts, we introduce a proof of concept that implements a highly consistent, and performant distributed cache with a persistence backing using Akka, Cassandra, and Scala.

The Akka Team at Lightbend recently released Akka gRPC 0.8.0, a library for building streaming gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams and Akka HTTP. We wanted to ask a few questions about this milestone, including the feature highlights, contributors, and plans for the future.

Lightbend is providing free online access to Lightbend Academy for any technologist looking to learn Reactive Architecture or sharpen their Scala skills—all from the comfort of home.

The combination of extensible, open, dynamically scalable infrastructure (Kubernetes plus Kudo), with an extensible, open stateful runtime (Akka) opens up amazing possibilities.

In this compilation video, we ask five engineers with experience using Akka how this distributed systems toolkit has made their lives easier.

In this special guest webinar with Akka expert and Reactive System Consultant, Manuel Bernhardt, we review Akka 2.6 release highlights and a selection of 6 former anti-patterns that have now been rendered impossible by design.

With this latest update of Alpakka Kafka 2.0, the Alpakka group in the Akka team at Lightbend took a few minutes to answer some questions about this exciting release. 

In this guest webinar with Chris McDermott, Lead Data Engineer at HPE, learn how HPE InfoSight–powered by Lightbend Platform–has emerged as the go-to solution for providing real-time metrics and predictive analytics for data center technologies.