An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
Akka offers a platform for building and running API-based applications, real-time data streams, microservices, and AI agents with actor-based runtime behaviors.
We last talked to Akka when their company name was Lightbend in 2023 and 2021. Lightbend first introduced Akka in 2015 as an open core technology for delivering services, streams, and event-driven architectures to the edge.
The rise of Agentic AI has been accompanied by an insane amount of market speculation and wild product claims about orchestrating fleets of AI agents that can operate autonomously. But before the latest AI agents are useful for critical business work, we would need a secure platform built from the ground up for the highly variable requirements of agents.
As it worked out, Akka didn’t build it from scratch because it was already there, ready to support agents, before the market demanded Agentic AI. This would be one of the first times I’ve seen a platform already built with the characteristics a new market demands.
Bring your code and data, or just vibecode an app with your favorite copilot. Deploy it onto the edge with WebAssembly-like ease and performance. Then, train or bring your own models to take advantage of the platform’s natural capabilities to deploy and run AI agents with zero-trust security at scale.
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