We sat down for a short Q/A with the Akka team at Lightbend, who recently released Alpakka 2.0 and included some major updates to various connectors in the Alpakka collection.

This blog post begins with details about how the Consumer and Alpakka Kafka internals are designed to facilitate asynchronous polling and back-pressure.

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. 

The Alpakka initiative started in 2016 with the idea to apply the Reactive Streams principles to Enterprise Integration by connecting Akka Streams to other technologies...

In this webinar with Enno Runne, Tech Lead for Alpakka at Lightbend, Inc., we’ll look at why integrations should be viewed as streams of data, and how Alpakka—a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala based on Reactive Streams and Akka—fits perfectly for today’s demands on system integrations.

Join Hugh McKee, Akka expert and Developer Advocate at Lightbend, on an illustrated journey that goes deep into how Akka works–from individual Akka actors to fully distributed clusters across multiple datacenters.

This technical white paper by Hugh McKee (@mckeeh3) and Oliver White (@theotown) of Lightbend will take you on an illustrated journey that goes deep into how Akka works

Reactive Streams expert and Lightbend Deputy CTO, Viktor Klang, provides a Reactive take on integration, where streaming is a first-class concept and Resilience and Responsiveness is achieved through flow control, back pressure, and feedback control.

This blog post brings together several resources into “get started kit” to learn what’s going on with streaming technologies like Akka Streams, Akka HTTP and Alpakka (all based on the Reactive Streams initiative) and connecting with your legacy integration points as a starting point.

In this session by Konrad Malawski, author, speaker and Senior Akka Engineer at Lightbend, you will learn how to build these streaming ETL pipelines with Akka Streams, Alpakka and Apache Kafka, and why they matter to enterprises that are increasingly turning to streaming Fast Data applications.

In this technical webinar by Hugh McKee, O’Reilly author and Developer Advocate at Lightbend, we introduce Akka from A to Z, starting with a tour from the humble actor and finishing all the way at the clustered systems level.

In this podcast with Patrik Nordwall, Akka Tech Lead at Lightbend, we review what’s new and improved in Akka 2.5 and what your teams should know in order to get the most out this release.

In this webinar for JVM Architects, Konrad Malawski explores the what and why of Reactive integrations, with examples featuring technologies like Akka Streams, Apache Kafka, and Alpakka, a new community project for building Streaming connectors that seeks to “back-pressurize” traditional Apache Camel endpoints.

I recently had a chat with Raymond Roestenburg, co-author of Akka In Action, to ask him about how Akka brings the brilliance of the Actor Model, first developed over 40 years ago, to the mainstream embrace of the JVM, and namely Java 8.