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.