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.

We are pleased to announce a new release of Lightbend Telemetry, a suite of monitoring and observability tooling for Lightbend technologies.

Take a moment to watch Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate, speaker, and O'Reilly author, describe how Akka makes his life easier, and why Akka is a great match for cloud native applications.

Take a moment to watch Manuel Bernhardt, Reactive Systems Consultant, describe how Akka makes his life easier, and why Akka is a great match for cloud native applications.

Kikia Carter, Principal Enterprise Architect, describes why Akka makes her life easier, and why it's the right match for cloud native applications.

Helena Edelson, Principal Engineer, speaker, and community leader, describes why she likes building systems with Akka, and why it's the right match for cloud native applications.

Colin Breck, System Architect and Engineering Manager, describes how Akka makes his life easier, and why Akka is a great match for cloud native applications.

In this special roundtable conversation about all things Akka, we sit down with notable Akka experts Helena Edelson, Johan Andrén, and Manuel Bernhardt, to discuss the recent release of Akka 2.6, which introduces the long-awaited Typed Actor API to overall toolkit.

The Akka team at Lightbend and overall Akka community are delighted to announce the immediate availability of Akka 2.6.

We are pleased to announce a new release of Lightbend Telemetry, a suite of observability tooling for Lightbend Platform. This release includes new instrumentation providing key visibility into Akka’s Persistent Actors and Lagom’s Persistent Entities.

This articles covers messaging within an Akka distributed actor systems, the concepts covered here also apply to messaging within microservice systems.

This article is the second in a series of three articles that dives into some of the interesting aspects of messaging within distributed systems environments.

This article is the last in our "How Akka Works" series that dives into some of the interesting aspects of messaging within distributed systems environments.

In this webinar by Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate at Lightbend, we take a look at how Akka and Kubernetes enjoy a symbiotic relationship, using live “crop circle” visuals to help.

Lightbend recently teamed with Groupon to tell the story of their adoption of Akka and Play Framework to solve issues of throughput, scalability, and resilience against downtime in their most critical systems.

Lightbend, EPFL, and the Scala Center recently released Scala 2.13. As this release paves the way for Scala 3 later in 2020, the Scala team at Lightbend took the opportunity to answer a few questions...