Akka HTTP
Akkattu T. Biju is an Indian scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, Indian national award for excellence in scientific research, for Chemical Sciences for the…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2022
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Akka HTTP was created to provide a truly non-blocking, asynchronous, and reactive solution for building HTTP services, addressing the limitations of traditional servlet-based frameworks that often struggled with blocking I/O and inefficient resource utilization under high concurrency. It aimed to offer superior throughput, latency, and resilience for modern microservices and streaming data applications, with built-in backpressure and a functional programming style.
- Platforms
- macos, windows, jvm, linux, web
Related technologies
Notable users
- E-commerce platforms
- Lightbend (the company behind Akka)
- Media and entertainment companies
- IoT backend services
- Financial Services (for high-frequency trading, data processing)