| Akka Adds New Deployment Options |
| Written by Kay Ewbank |
| Wednesday, 30 April 2025 |
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Akka has announced new deployment options for its Akka platform, as well as new solutions to tackle the issues with deploying large-scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical applications. Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, develops software for building and running distributed applications that are elastic, agile, and guaranteed resilient. Akka is a platform consisting of a set of libraries downloaded 1 billion times. The most recent version added 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 latest announcement adds the ability to build distributed systems, including agentic AI deployments, without having to commit to Akka’s Platform. Akka's CEO Tyler Jewell says this enables enterprise teams to quickly build scalable systems locally and run them on any infrastructure they want. Akka now has two new deployment capabilities: self-managed Akka nodes and self-hosted Akka Platform regions. The self-managed Akka nodes means companies can now run clusters of services that were built with Akka SDK on any cloud infrastructure. The new version of the Akka SDK includes a self-managed build option that will create services that can be executed stand-alone. The services are binaries packaged in Docker images that can be deployed in any container PaaS, bare metal hardware, VMs, edge nodes, or Kubernetes with any Akka infrastructure or Platform dependencies. The self-hosted Akka Platform regions means teams can run their own Akka Platform regions without any dependency on Akka.io control planes. Services built with the Akka SDK have always been deployable onto Akka Platform, with Akka providing managed services through the company's Akka Serverless and Akka BYOC offerings. Self-hosted regions are Akka Platform regions with no Akka control plane dependency. They can be installed in any data center with orchestration, proxy, and infrastructure dependencies specified by Akka. The Akka team says the new facilities aim to accelerate agentic AI application delivery by treating agentic services as augmenting rather than replacing existing SaaS architecture. Akka's implementation includes non-blocking asynchronous LLM adapters, automatic in-memory, and durable context databases, an event-driven system benchmarked to 10 million TPS, developer workflow tools, and multi-region deployment capabilities with replication filtering for compliance requirements. Akka 3 is available now. More InformationRelated ArticlesAkka Adds Database Sharding Support Lightbend Akka Updates Cloud And Edge Support Lightbend Launches Distributed Cluster Lightbend Releases Java SDK For Kalix Kalix-NoOps High-performance Microservices and APIs To be informed about new articles on I Programmer, sign up for our weekly newsletter, subscribe to the RSS feed and follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin. 
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