The actor model is a message-passing paradigm that resolves some of the major challenges of writing concurrent, scalable code for today’s distributed systems. In this installment of Open source Java ...

Akka is an actor-based framework that is easy to implement with the available Java 8 Lambda support. Actors enable developers to design and implement systems in ways that lets us focus more on the ...

Building concurrent systems that are capable of working on multiple pieces of work at the same time can be difficult, particularly when there's some shared mutable state being accessed by multiple ...

As the buzz over the Internet of Things (IoT) ripples across industries, companies from small startups to industry behemoths rush to launch their IoT products. The dramatic advances in Internet ...

Lightbend, the company behind the Scala JVM language and developer of the Reactive Platform, announced a 200,000-user milestone for its Akka platform, just a few months short of the platform's 10-year ...

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