This 5-part Akka workshop series provides a guided, expert tour of implementing microservices with Akka Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, and AWS or GCP.

In this interactive presentation by Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate at Lightbend, we share our experiences helping our clients create a system architecture that can support high throughput megaservices using a demo designed to push cloud service providers like Amazon and Google to their limits.

As we start the second decade of Lightbend, we are at an extremely exciting juncture in our evolution and embarking on the third phase of our company’s life to become even more of a cloud software company.

Akka offers cluster sharding as a way to introduce elasticity and resilience into your application. In this blog post, you'll explore how key Akka modules—namely Akka Cluster Sharding—can be used to build stateful systems.

Aleksandar Skrbic, a software developer based in Novi Sad, Serbia, and author of some great introductory posts on Akka Actors, discusses how Akka has boosted his Scala career as a distributed systems developer.

In this How Akka Cluster Works demo project, we dive deeper into the code and behavior behind Akka actors living in the cluster, supported by visualizations and sample code that you can download to your own machine.

In this Lightbend Podcast, we sit down with Renato Cavalcanti, senior engineer on the Akka team to discuss the recent release of Akka Projections 1.0, a new addition to the Akka toolkit.

In this webinar with Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate for Akka Platform, we’ll look at “What on Earth”, a demo exploring how Akka Microservices serves as an ideal solution for high-scale digital twinning for IoT–exemplified by Tesla in this TechRepublic article.

You may not have realized it at the time, but it's quite possible you've used Akka without knowing it. 

While there are many Knative examples for Knative Serving and Knative Eventing, it is hard to find examples written in Scala. In this blog post, we’ll fill in this gap by providing some Knative examples in Scala.

In this demo and sample project, we look at the dynamics behind failure and recovery with Akka Cluster, especially looking at the difference between DIY recovery and automated recovery with Split Brain Resolver.

In this hands-on session with Hugh McKee, you’ll get to see first hand the dynamics behind failure and recovery with Akka Cluster, especially looking at the difference between DIY recovery and automated recovery with Split Brain Resolver.

We recently sat down with Johannes Rudolph, Senior Engineer on the Akka Platform team at Lightbend, to discuss the recent launch of Akka HTTP 10.2, which includes various improvements based on Akka 2.6, a reduction in boilerplate code for Java developers, and improved interop with Akka gRPC.

In this self-paced, virtual course for Java developers, you’ll learn how to use Akka to create highly concurrent applications that are capable of improved scalability within a single JVM.

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.

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.