Examples of use-cases for Akka
There is a great discussion on use-cases for Akka with some good write-ups by production users here
Here are some of the areas where Akka is being deployed into production
Transaction processing (Online Gaming, Finance/Banking, Trading, Statistics, Betting, Social Media, Telecom)
Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
Service backend (any industry, any app)
Service REST, SOAP, Cometd, WebSockets etc Act as message hub / integration layer Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
Concurrency/parallelism (any app)
Correct Simple to work with and understand Just add the jars to your existing JVM project (use Scala, Java, Groovy or JRuby)
Simulation
Master/Worker, Compute Grid, MapReduce etc.
Batch processing (any industry)
Camel integration to hook up with batch data sources Actors divide and conquer the batch workloads
Communications Hub (Telecom, Web media, Mobile media)
Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
Gaming and Betting (MOM, online gaming, betting)
Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
Business Intelligence/Data Mining/general purpose crunching
Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
Complex Event Stream Processing
Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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