Our Strategic Partnership with Akka
Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, is a strategic platform partner of Improving in our application development and application consulting service offerings. As a trusted Akka platform partner, we have successfully developed, deployed, and maintained highly distributed, scalable, performant and efficient enterprise systems for leading firms in various industries, like Norwegian Cruise Lines in the logistics and travel + tourism sector.
Key Features of Akka
Leading Distributed Systems Platform: Built for scalability, elasticity, and resiliency.
Proven Framework for Modernization: Designed for building event-driven, microservices-based architectures.
Expertise in Reactive Architecture: Deep knowledge of Akka’s SDKs, libraries, and frameworks.
Tailored Akka Solutions for Modern Enterprises
Through our partnership with Akka, we deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performance solutions tailored to meet your unique business needs. From application modernization to building advanced distributed systems, our expertise ensures your technology infrastructure supports your digital transformation goals. With Akka, we help you design and deploy applications that are elastic, agile, and fault-tolerant, enabling enhanced competitiveness and operational efficiency.
Application Modernization
Revolutionize your legacy systems with Akka’s powerful framework for modern distributed architectures. Our expertise ensures seamless modernization, enabling faster, more scalable, and resilient applications.
Reactive Architecture Implementation
Microservices Transition
Event-Driven Application Design
Cloud-Native Application Deployment
65%
Faster Time-to-Market
50%
Reduction in Operational Costs
99.9%
Uptime
Build Scalable, Real-Time AI Applications with Akka
Akka provides the ideal foundation for building AI systems that require high concurrency, real-time processing, and dynamic scalability. Its actor-based model supports distributed machine learning pipelines, reactive data flows, and resilient AI architectures. Whether you're building an inference engine, streaming analytics pipeline, or intelligent agent system, Akka helps bring AI to production with performance and stability.
Start Building with Akka Today
Whether you’re launching a reactive software project, scaling your development team, or training your engineers on Akka and distributed systems, we’re here to help. Improving offers multiple paths to engagement, each backed by deep expertise in Akka, Scala, and modern cloud-native architecture.
Why Choose Akka & Improving?
Akka has long been our platform of choice for building high-performing, distributed systems that power critical business operations. Built on the JVM, Akka enables the development of event-driven, microservices-based architectures that are fault-tolerant, secure, and built to scale. We've used Akka to deliver real-time solutions across industries like logistics, finance, and travel to help clients improve scalability, performance, and customer experience.
Resilient by Design
Akka enables non-blocking, self-healing systems that stay responsive under pressure, built to follow the principles of the Reactive Manifesto.
Scalable by Nature
Akka’s Actor and Stream-based architecture makes it simple to scale both vertically and horizontally without increasing system complexity.
Elastic & Decentralized
Design distributed systems with no single point of failure, supporting adaptive routing, load balancing, CQRS, and Cluster Sharding.
Built for Performance
Akka processes up to 200 million messages per second and supports millions of lightweight actors per GB, ideal for real-time, high-throughput workloads.
Certified Akka Developers & Engineers
Our Akka team has completed advanced training and certification through Lightbend, the creators of Akka. Our team holds official credentials in Akka Fundamentals, Akka Streams, and Akka Cluster, demonstrating our deep understanding of the platform’s core components. These certifications reflect not only our technical capability, but also our commitment to delivering resilient, distributed systems with confidence and precision.
Real-World Results with Akka
Our partnership with Akka has enabled clients across industries to achieve transformative outcomes. By leveraging Akka’s powerful platform, we’ve delivered scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions tailored to meet complex business needs.
Transformative And Modernized Reservation System
Discover how Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) partnered with Improving to modernize their operations with a unified, scalable platform. Together, we replaced a fragmented legacy system with a service-oriented solution that streamlines reservations, pricing, and vacation planning—laying the foundation for NCLH’s future growth and innovation.
Comprehensive Akka Services Tailored to Your Needs
Since becoming an Akka platform partner in 2016, we have delivered innovative and impactful solutions using Akka’s cutting-edge technologies. Our consultative approach ensures every step of your application modernization journey is tailored to your unique needs, from initial architectural assessments to prototype development and ongoing managed services. By combining Akka’s flexibility, performance, and scalability with our expertise, we empower clients to build industry-leading distributed applications that drive growth and success.
Architecture Assessments
We align your systems with Akka’s distributed framework through detailed architectural assessments. This ensures your applications are optimized for scalability, performance, and resilience from the ground up.
Prototype Development
Our team rapidly builds and tests prototypes to validate your solution before full-scale implementation. This approach reduces risks and accelerates time-to-market while delivering functional proof-of-concepts aligned to your business needs.
Managed Services
Once deployed, we provide end-to-end support to keep your systems running smoothly. From proactive monitoring to maintenance and troubleshooting, our managed services ensure continuous performance and reliability for your Akka-powered applications.
Training Programs
We empower your teams with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. Our hands-on training in Reactive Architecture and Akka’s tools ensures your organization can manage, optimize, and innovate with confidence.
"Partnering with Akka empowers us to build high-performance, resilient systems that scale effortlessly. Together, we're enabling businesses to tackle their most complex challenges with confidence."
Sarthak Routh, Marketing Manager
Explore Our Akka Technology Stack
Akka’s robust technology stack empowers businesses to build modern, distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, and efficient. From its core features like Actors and Streams to integrations with external systems and cloud-native deployment options, Akka provides the tools needed to create high-performing applications. Paired with our expertise, these technologies enable seamless digital transformation and innovation for enterprises across industries.
Core Akka Features
The foundational components of Akka enable the creation of scalable, resilient, and concurrent systems designed for modern distributed architectures.
Stay Ahead with Akka Insights
Explore our blog for expert perspectives on Akka and distributed systems. From application modernization tips to real-world success stories, stay informed on the latest trends and innovations driving scalable and resilient architectures.
Kickstart Your Application Modernization Journey Today!
If you’re ready to take the leap and kickstart your application modernization journey, feel free to reach out to our trusted digital transformation experts today!
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