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AKKA Blogs
Company blog · lightbend.com/blogprogrammingsystems
AKKA Blogs is the company blog at lightbend.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2016, 42 different Hacker News readers have linked it 48 times, most often “Typesafe is now Lightbend”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The corporate site of Lightbend, maker of Akka, Play and Lagom, with blog posts and resources on Akka's licence change, the Reactive Manifesto and Scala. HN links it mainly for licensing and background context.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Akka Agentic AI Platform guarantees resilience and scalability. The platform uses smart shared abstractions to make every AI system as efficient as possible.
Most-linked posts?
- Typesafe is now Lightbend3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-23
- Akka License FAQ – Lightbend3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-09-07
- Reactive Programming versus Reactive Systems3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-01-06
- Scala 3 Is Coming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-16
- Typesafe Changes Name to Lightbend2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-23
- We Are Changing the License for Akka2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-07
- Lagom is coming for your monolith2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-23
- Questions answered on the change to Lightbend and Lagom for Java2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-29
- On the Future of Play Framework2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-20
What Hacker News says?
StashAway (FinTech) | Backend Engineer (Scala) | ONSITE, REMOTE | Singapore (HQ), Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur StashAway is the leading digital wealth manager (=retail robo advisor) in Singapore and South East Asia. We have built our trading system that powers all of our investing services and manages customers’ assets on top of Scala / Akka & Cassandra using the Lagom framework for event sourcing and CQR…
Comment linking /case-studies/digital-wealth-automated-how-stashaway-doubled-growth-in-2-months-with-lightbend
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2020)”Submitted We Are Changing the License for Akka as a story · 229 points
HN discussionNah not our focus. We are going to interop with keras with our scala api: https://github.com/deeplearning4j/Scalnet That will allow us to benefit from what that community is building in terms of neural networks. We want to be the "deployment path" for those kinds of models while we focus on making c++ on the jvm as fast as possible. We basically focus on the hadoop and spark crowd. We're already the industry standar…
Comment linking /blog/meet-deeplearning4j-and-biddata-two-emergent-machine-learning-technologies-for-the-JVM
on “We Don’t Simply Get Remote Jobs, We Join Remote Teams”Submitted How Akka Cluster Works: Actors Living in a Cluster as a story · 109 points
HN discussionYou may find the following page helpful: https://www.lightbend.com/resources/case-studies-and-stories
Comment linking /resources/case-studies-and-stories
on “The myth of using Scala as a better Java”Submitted Typesafe Changes Name to Lightbend as a story · 79 points
HN discussionAkka, Play and Lagom are part of the Lightbend Reactive Platform -- everything's async from the ground up, built on the JVM and Scala. The authors put together the Reactive Manifesto: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/reactive-manifesto-20
Comment linking /blog/reactive-manifesto-20
on “135M messages a second between processes in Java (2013)”Submitted Questions answered on the change to Lightbend and Lagom for Java as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI think it's simpler than that, just from their relicensing FAQ: https://www.lightbend.com/akka/license-faq > Akka requires significant investment in order to maintain its position as a preeminent distributed systems runtime. Many organizations have adopted Akka and are seeing significant benefits for their organizations. > However, in recent years an increasing number of those organizations have elected to self-sup…
Comment linking /akka/license-faq
on “We Are Changing the License for Akka”Submitted Stats of recent layoffs at Lightbend (Akka, Scala) just after 25MM funding round as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI don't think that the Akka license change is aimed at cloud providers. Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala [1]. It's not possible for AWS to offer their own "Akka service" the way they offered Redis as ElastiCache. This change affects companies that build software using Akka. For example, here's a case study regarding an oilfiel…
Comment linking /blog/low-cpu-utilization-fortune-500
on “We Are Changing the License for Akka”Submitted Akka License FAQ – Lightbend as a story · 5 points
HN discussion2000 USD per core per year. https://www.lightbend.com/akka
Comment linking /akka
on “We Are Changing the License for Akka”Submitted Scala 3 Is Coming as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI can think of some very good reasons to suggest SBT to beginners. Probably the most useful features, in this regard, is that a folder with some Scala files in it is a valid SBT project. You don't even need a build configuration file. This is substantially less work than setting up a Scala project through Gradle, Maven, Ant or an IDE. Also, if you use SBT through Activator[1] you get project templates and an automat…
Comment linking /community/core-tools/activator-and-sbt
on “Scala School”Submitted Reactive Programming versus Reactive Systems as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> theoretically capable of supporting even banks https://scala.epfl.ch/ > The examples you mentioned are relative small. You know what's big? Walmart. WellsFargo. Honeywell. Novartis. https://www.lightbend.com/resources/case-studies-and-stories... https://www.lightbend.com/resources/case-studies-and-stories... https://medium.com/@kvnwbbr/transitioning-to-scala-d1818f25b...
Comment linking /resources/case-studies-and-stories/walmart-boosts-conversions-by-20-with-lightbend-reactive-platform
on “Help me sort out the meaning of “{}” as a constructor argument”Submitted The best of serverless and state without any of the hassle as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm not super familiar with Akka beyond high-level/actor model so I can't competently compare the two. NATS can be used to implement an actor model and has a similar philosophy to Akka core in terms of delivery semantics (i.e. no real guarantees - https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.1/general/message-delivery-g... ). Looking at Akka Streams, it appears to be more in line with Liftbridge, though I'm not totally sure. Lif…
Comment linking /blog/how-akka-works-exactly-once-message-delivery
on “Show HN: Liftbridge – Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams”Submitted LightBend answers questions about the future of Scala as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIn a way it is ironic because in aeronautical engineering everything is well tested with backup systems when it comes to making the airframes, engines, and the entire airplane. Yet, they did not engineer their software system according to the same standards of residency which is a part of engineering often forgotten about by many. One of the great value-added of firms using open source software is indeed the integra…
Comment linking /platform
on “Airbus A380 – $6.1B in additional costs due to project delays”Submitted On the Future of Play Framework as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOther discussions: https://twitter.com/jamie_allen/status/1248019842877145089 http://eed3si9n.com/6years-at-lightbend https://twitter.com/phonytope/status/1248025015447998465 https://www.lightbend.com/company/news/lightbend-closes-25m-...
Comment linking /company/news/lightbend-closes-25m-funding-round
on “Lightbend secures 25MM funding round, proceeds to layoff Scala contributors”Submitted Understanding Akka Streams, Back Pressure and Asynchronous Architectures as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBackground: Typesafe was the primary commercial entity behind the Scala programming language. They've recently rebranded to Lightbend: http://www.lightbend.com/blog/typesafe-changes-name-to-light... This announcement has caused some controversy in the Scala community due to their explicit focus on Java customers, and changing a name that was semantically linked to Scala itself.
Comment linking /blog/typesafe-changes-name-to-lightbend
on “Questions answered on the change to Lightbend and Lagom for Java”Submitted Lightbend (previously Typesafe) releases Lagom - a Framework for Microservices as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOfftopic, I've never heard of Akka, going to the page https://www.lightbend.com/akka/ didn't help either.. > Akka provides the building blocks that make it easy for businesses to build, deploy, and run large-scale applications that support digitally transformative initiatives. Fucking hell, buzzwords galore. Scrolling down it didn't get better, it's all just marketing blah blah.
Comment linking /akka/
on “Ask HN: Akka fork – who would be willing to contribute?”Submitted Typesafe is now Lightbend as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFrom their FAQ [1] I use Akka for an OSS project. What does this mean for my project? The license offers a customizable “Additional Use Grant” that grants production usage for other OSS projects including Play Framework. If you are running an OSS project using Akka, please contact us at akka-license@lightbend.com and we will do our best to continue to support your project 1. https://www.lightbend.com/akka/license-fa…
Comment linking /akka/license-faq
on “Ask HN: Akka fork – who would be willing to contribute?”Submitted Lagom is coming for your monolith as a story · 3 points
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