Akka

Lightbend, now doing business as Akka, is a software development company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011 by Martin Odersky, creator of the Scala programming language, Jonas Bonér, creator of the Akka middleware, and Paul Phillips. The company specializes in providing solutions for building, operating, and securing distri... buted applications and enterprise agentic AI systems in cloud-native environments. Akka removes architectural hurdles associated with globally distributed, cloud-native application environments, equipping development teams with technology and expertise to build microservices that are resilient to failure, scale effortlessly, and instantaneously process data for business-critical decisions and hyper-personalized customer experiences. The company's platform enables developers to create elastic, agile, and resilient applications using actor-based programming models that eliminate problems associated with multi-threaded systems, offering tools for high concurrency, transactional workloads, real-time streaming data, and distributed systems management. Akka 3, the latest platform iteration, delivers industry-first capabilities including the first PaaS enabling application migration with no-downtime across clouds, regions, and devices, the first application runtime with multi-master replication featuring writable CRDT replicas running globally, and the first app resilience guarantee indemnifying customers against losses from application unreliability. The Akka Agentic Platform includes orchestration for guiding multi-agent systems, agents for creating MCP tools and APIs with real-time evaluation, durable memory for agent and workflow data, high-performance stream processing, and automated testing capabilities. Formerly known as Typesafe, the company serves industry titans and agile startups across sectors requiring modernized applications for digital experiences, data processing, AI inference, and edge computing, with deployment options including serverless, ...Read More