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Akka

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Akka?

Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. It uses the Actor Model to simplify concurrent programming and provides features like fault tolerance, location transparency, and clustering. It's commonly used for building scalable microservices, reactive systems, and real-time data processing applications.

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What other technologies are related to Akka?

Akka Competitor Technologies

ZIO is a library for building concurrent and asynchronous applications, offering an alternative to Akka's actor model and concurrency primitives.

mentioned alongside Akka in 30% (225) of relevant job posts

http4s is a functional, asynchronous HTTP server and client. It competes with Akka HTTP as an option for building HTTP services in Scala.

mentioned alongside Akka in 17% (60) of relevant job posts

Cats Effect is a library for building asynchronous and concurrent applications. It competes with Akka's concurrency and actor model.

mentioned alongside Akka in 16% (57) of relevant job posts

Vert.x is a polyglot event-driven application framework that can be used for building reactive applications, offering an alternative to Akka.

mentioned alongside Akka in 8% (90) of relevant job posts

Vert.x is a polyglot event-driven application framework that can be used for building reactive applications, offering an alternative to Akka.

mentioned alongside Akka in 5% (135) of relevant job posts

Apache Storm is a distributed real-time computation system, an alternative for stream processing use cases where Akka Streams may be used.

mentioned alongside Akka in 2% (195) of relevant job posts

Akka Complementary Technologies

Play Framework can be used with Akka to build web applications.

mentioned alongside Akka in 18% (512) of relevant job posts

Monix is a library for asynchronous programming and reactive streams, which can be used alongside Akka.

mentioned alongside Akka in 60% (113) of relevant job posts

Play Framework can be used with Akka to build web applications.

mentioned alongside Akka in 16% (383) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Akka?

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Jobs mentioning Akka

Orgs mentioning Akka

Engineer

0% (4k) job posts

68 organizations

Software Engineer

0% (3.7k) job posts

843 organizations

Data Engineer

0% (141) job posts

70 organizations

Frontend Engineer

0% (108) job posts

29 organizations

Software Architect

0% (95) job posts

42 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Akka?

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