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...

In this talk by Jonas Bonér, Lightbend CTO/Co-Founder and creator of Akka, we will explore the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how we can unleash the power of events and commands by applying an events first, domain-driven design to microservices-based architectures.

In our continuing series on Design Techniques For Building Stateful Cloud-Native Applications (see Part 1, Part 2. and Part 3), we now take a look at message delivery, including some basic review of RPC, REST, Actors and more...

Jonas Bonér, creator of Akka and CTO/Co-Founder of Lightbend, reflects on 10 years of Akka bringing successful applications to the cloud for many of the worlds most admired brands. 

Akka 2.5.0 was released 2 years ago, and since then we have released 22 patch releases. This means that it's high time for a new minor release...

After much testing and intense development of a few important features, we are confident that Akka Typed has the quality and performance to be used in production.