Lightbend, the company that developed Akka, has announced Akka 3, and has changed its name to Akka. The company produces cloud-native microservices frameworks, and Akka is used for building distributed applications.

The company describes Akka 3 as a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Akka consists of a set of libraries downloaded 1 billion times. The new version adds support for serverless and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) environments that Akka says automate Day 2 operations.

Akka offers two ways to build applications, an SDK and the Akka libraries. The SDK includes components with a local console, debugger, and runtime, while the libraries are open-source modules for creating distributed systems including actors, networking, streams, persistence, and clustering.

The new platform (called Akka 3) adds automation features so operators can run them without the need to understand the app’s infrastructure. Akka says this includes clouds, hyperscaler config, regions, databases, storage, Kubernetes, VMs, or proxies.  

Akka now supports replication and migration of apps across hyperscalers, along with a runtime with multi-master replication, and is the first vendor to indemnify an app’s resilience.

The updated version means developers can create an application once and then have it run and replicate its data across any cloud, region, or data center, and the applications can migrate from one to another without users experiencing downtime. 

The support includes the ability to move an app from the cloud to an on-prem data center at the click of a button, rather than having to carry out a full rewrite of the application.

Akka 3 also makes Day 2/Day N operations fully automated to avoid the need for operators to carry out replication, elasticity planning from spikes or idleness, and automatic recovery from any failure. Day-2 operations is the term used for ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and optimization of applications. 

Finally, the company has announced that Akka 3's resilience is such that they now guarantee an app's resilience by indemnifying customers from the loss of an application’s data.

Describing the changes, Jonas Bonér, CTO and Chairman of the board said:

"We have focused on has been extending Akka's capabilities to the full cloud-to-edge continuum: first-class support for multi-region, multi-cloud, and edge. This includes security and building zero trust systems."

Tyler Jewell, Akka's president and CEO, added that

"With Akka 3, anyone can build and run apps that are responsive by design – guaranteeing SLAs by adapting continuously and independently of the infrastructure."

Akka 3 is available now.

More Information

Akka Website

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