aid: akka
name: Akka
description: Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications
  on the JVM using the actor model for Java and Scala. Maintained by Lightbend, Akka provides a comprehensive set of libraries
  including actors, HTTP, streams, cluster, persistence, and gRPC for building reactive, microservice-based architectures.
type: Index
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tags:
- Actor Model
- Distributed Systems
- Frameworks
- Java
- Microservices
- Reactive
- Scala
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created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: akka:akka-management
  name: Akka Management
  description: Akka Management provides a suite of utilities for operating Akka-based distributed systems, including an HTTP
    management API for cluster management, health checks, and cluster bootstrap. The HTTP API exposes endpoints for liveness
    probes, readiness probes, cluster member management, and seed node discovery.
  humanURL: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-management/current/
  tags:
  - Actor Model
  - Cluster Management
  - Distributed Systems
  - Health Checks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-management/current/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/akka/refs/heads/main/openapi/akka-management.json
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/management-bootstrap.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/management-cluster.yaml
  - type: NaftikoCapability
    url: capabilities/management-health.yaml
- aid: akka:akka-http
  name: Akka HTTP
  description: Akka HTTP is a full HTTP stack (client and server-side) built on Akka actors and streams. It provides a routing
    DSL for building REST and WebSocket services, with built-in JSON marshalling, TLS support, and HTTP/2 capabilities.
  humanURL: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-http/current/
  tags:
  - HTTP
  - REST API
  - Reactive
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-http/current/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-http/current/introduction.html
- aid: akka:akka-streams
  name: Akka Streams
  description: Akka Streams is a library to process and transfer a sequence of elements using bounded buffer space, implementing
    the Reactive Streams specification for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking backpressure.
  humanURL: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka/current/stream/index.html
  tags:
  - Backpressure
  - Data Streaming
  - Reactive
  - Reactive Streams
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka/current/stream/index.html
- aid: akka:akka-grpc
  name: Akka gRPC
  description: Akka gRPC provides support for building streaming gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams, with code
    generation from protobuf definitions for both Java and Scala.
  humanURL: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-grpc/current/
  tags:
  - gRPC
  - Protobuf
  - Streaming
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-grpc/current/
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- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/akka-io
- type: Website
  url: https://akka.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://doc.akka.io/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka/current/typed/guide/introduction.html
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/akka
- type: Blog
  url: https://akka.io/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://akka.io/pricing/
- type: JSONSchema
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  url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/akka/refs/heads/main/rules/akka-spectral-rules.yml
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- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Actor Model
    description: Lightweight concurrent entities (actors) that communicate via asynchronous message passing, enabling high-throughput
      distributed computation.
  - name: Cluster Sharding
    description: Distributes actors across a cluster and automatically rebalances them when nodes join or leave the cluster.
  - name: Persistence and Event Sourcing
    description: Durable actor state through event sourcing with pluggable journal backends (Cassandra, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB,
      etc.).
  - name: Distributed Data
    description: Conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) for sharing data across cluster nodes without coordination overhead.
  - name: HTTP and WebSocket
    description: Full HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 server and client stack with routing DSL, JSON support, and WebSocket upgrades.
  - name: Reactive Streams
    description: Backpressure-aware stream processing compliant with the Reactive Streams specification, integrating with
      RxJava, Project Reactor, and others.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Microservices
    description: Teams build resilient, location-transparent microservices using Akka actors and HTTP with built-in backpressure
      and supervision.
  - name: Real-Time Data Processing
    description: Organizations process high-throughput event streams using Akka Streams with exactly-once processing guarantees.
  - name: Distributed State Management
    description: Applications maintain distributed mutable state using cluster sharding and distributed data without external
      coordination systems.
  - name: Event Sourcing
    description: Systems implement event sourcing and CQRS patterns using Akka Persistence with pluggable journal backends.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: Apache Kafka
    description: Alpakka Kafka connector for consuming and producing Kafka messages
  - name: Cassandra
    description: Alpakka Cassandra connector and Akka Persistence journal
  - name: AWS
    description: Alpakka connectors for S3, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, and other AWS services
  - name: gRPC
    description: Akka gRPC for code generation from protobuf and streaming gRPC services
  - name: Spring Boot
    description: Integration with Spring Boot for mixed Akka and Spring applications
- type: Integrations
  url: https://akka.io/partners
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://akka.io/llms.txt
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- FN: Kin Lane
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