Who we are
Our people are smart. We know customers and partners matter most. We’re empowered to make decisions and we're quick to act.
Our customers are agile startups that are disrupting markets and industry titans that continue to lead the way.
Our technology solves deeply technical problems so that our customers can focus on their customers, and innovate faster.
Our engineers understand our customer's challenges really well because they live them every day.
Our partners are major cloud providers, system integrators, and technology experts because none of us can do it alone.
Our investors are some of the biggest backers of groundbreaking companies and technologies.
Our board is engaged and includes the brightest minds from across the industry.
Our values are important to us. We care about what we say we care about.
Our values
We’re Authentic:
We value transparency and genuine communication, without politics or games. We're honest and assume good intentions, cultivating trust and accountability within our organization and in our interactions with others outside of Lightbend.
We’re Customer-Focused:
We value customer outcomes above all else. By prioritizing our customers' interests, and meeting them where they are today, we help ensure their success. We are dedicated to deeply understanding our customer’s needs, anticipating challenges, navigating time constraints and striving to exceed expectations.
We’re Nonconventional:
We value fearless innovation by challenging the status quo and embracing alternative approaches. Continuous learning and a growth mindset aimed at improving ourselves, our company, and our products, drives us to push boundaries and explore new solutions. Guided by a bias for action, we leverage industry and customer insights to inspire fresh ideas, enabling optimal future offerings.
We’re Persistent:
We value excellence through continuous experimentation and courageous problem-solving. We recognize that achieving success often demands approaching challenges with tenacity and taking calculated risks to achieve leading-edge solutions.
Our fans
Although our engineering team has grown substantially over the last 12 months, our Akka team has remained almost flat - a testament to the efficiency of the Akka technology.
Nino Ulsamer
CTO, Stash Away
Akka and reactive streams from Lightbend have enabled Tubi to provide customer experiences unlike any other in the video-on-demand space.
Marios Assistis
CTO at Tubi
With Akka, we can let the complexities of developing advanced streaming applications fade into the background—freeing us to focus on building next-generation digital capabilities for our clients.
Kathleen Hernandez
Unomic
A payments system must offer 100% certainty, and the self-healing capabilities of Akka give us exactly what we need.
Rob Howes
CTO, Judopay
Although our engineering team has grown substantially over the last 12 months, our Akka team has remained almost flat - a testament to the efficiency of the Akka technology.
Nino Ulsamer
CTO, Stash Away
Although our engineering team has grown substantially over the last 12 months, our Akka team has remained almost flat - a testament to the efficiency of the Akka technology.
Nino Ulsamer
CTO, Stash Away
Verified User in Computer Software
Enterprise (> 1000 emp)
4.5/5
Excellent for building complex project infrastructure.
High scalability. Good testing infrastructure. Easy to learn.
Awais H.
Advisory Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5/5
Akka Concurrent Programming Review.
Love its scalability part and the ease we can handle concurrency and better utilization w.r.t. cpu cores.
Verified User in Financial Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp)
4/5
Good for implementing concurrency.
A good model for asynchronous message handling without the complexities of threads and locks. With Akka, we can compose a system of actors and message passing.
Khoren M.
Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Simplified solution for complex distributed systems
Meghana R.
Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5/5
Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed message driven apps.
Scalability and ease the use of concurrency.
A E.
Professor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Great tool to build apps
Very easy to use to build native cloud applications. Works well out of the box. Our development team love it. Setting up is easy. Learning is also easy. Cloudbased, so makes it accessible to many people.
Khoren M.
Senior software engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Akka, one of the best solution for complex and distributed systems
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5/5
Akka is a great for building concurrent applications
Fast and scalable and reduce the amount of code comparing to other frameworks.
Verified User in Telecommunications
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Scalability to consume millions of messages easily.
The Actor concept and scalability to consume millions of messages easily
Sworup P.
Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5/5
It is highly useful tool for development of applications with high scalability in Java
Concurrency control, distributed and scallable.
Awais H.
Advisory Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5/5
Akka Concurrent Programming Review.
Love its scalability part and the ease we can handle concurrency and better utilization w.r.t. cpu cores.
Verified User in Financial Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp)
4/5
Good for implementing concurrency.
A good model for asynchronous message handling without the complexities of threads and locks. With Akka, we can compose a system of actors and message passing.
Khoren M.
Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Simplified solution for complex distributed systems
Meghana R.
Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5/5
Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed message driven apps.
Scalability and ease the use of concurrency.
A E.
Professor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Great tool to build apps
Very easy to use to build native cloud applications. Works well out of the box. Our development team love it. Setting up is easy. Learning is also easy. Cloudbased, so makes it accessible to many people.
Khoren M.
Senior software engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5/5
Akka, one of the best solution for complex and distributed systems
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5/5
Akka is a great for building concurrent applications
Fast and scalable and reduce the amount of code comparing to other frameworks.