An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
We last spoke with Lightbend in June, 2021.
Lightbend now supports the popular Akka actor-based platform for edge computing. Akka support is available across cloud, data center, distributed clusters, and edge data centers (and for devices soon).
Akka’s common actor-based programming model runs programs designed for the edge across all supported platforms, seamlessly linking code and data from the cloud and/or distributed clusters to the edge and back.
Running an Akka message broker in the cloud extends an application to the edge using brokerless pub/sub in a near edge distributed cluster and on an edge point of presence. A polyglot WASM assembly prototype will soon extend Akka to edge devices as well.
The actor-based model supports high levels of scalability with a low footprint, reliably transferring data to and from the edge at low latency.
Lightbend provides commercial support for Akka, now including Akka Edge.
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