Lightbend announced Akka 3 - a platform to build and run apps
that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Akka is known as a set of libraries
that have been downloaded 1 billion times and is already the standard for
building resilient and elastic distributed systems. Now, Akka introduces a
simple SDK for development, and Serverless and Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC)
environments that automate Day 2 operations. Akka has multiple industry-firsts:
the first to migrate apps across hyperscalers, the first runtime with
multi-master replication, and the first vendor to indemnify an app's
resilience.
To better reflect who they
are as a company, Lightbend has changed its name to Akka.
[ Read the VMblog Q&A with Tyler Jewell to learn more ]
"The industry has spent
trillions on infrastructure that cannot guarantee an application's SLA," said
Tyler Jewell, Akka's president and CEO. "It's time for the industry to think
app-down instead of infrastructure-up. 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 proven,
generating millions in revenue with industry titans:
- A Global SaaS vendor
with 2M users porting a non-scaling .NET app.
- An international bank
transforming 4-week manual processes into hours-long workflows.
- An online retailer
that required writable 1M+ IOPS with <20ms latency.
Akka announces multiple
industry-firsts:
- The first PaaS that
enables application migration - applications
replicate across clouds, regions, and devices for no-downtime migrations,
repatriation, and disaster recovery.
- The first application
runtime with Multi-Master Replication - apps act as their own
in-memory databases with writable CRDT replicas running globally, so
failover never makes users wait.
- The first app
resilience guarantee - Akka indemnifies
their customers against losses caused by an app becoming unreliable.
Akka
3 is now available.