"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."
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.
Distributed Systems
Build robust, distributed systems with Akka’s industry-leading framework for high-performance, concurrent, and asynchronous applications.
Security & Resiliency
Leverage Akka’s fault-tolerant and secure architecture to protect your systems while ensuring high availability and reliability.
Why Choose Akka & Improving?
Akka has been our platform partner of choice for designing and deploying high-performing, distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, and secure. Built on the JVM, Akka is a powerful framework for creating event-driven, microservices-based architectures that support digital transformation initiatives. Its unparalleled performance and flexibility have enabled us to build fault-tolerant applications for industries ranging from logistics to finance to travel and tourism. By leveraging Akka's proven tools and our expertise, we help clients achieve enhanced scalability, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
Resilient by Design
Building on the principles of The Reactive Manifesto, Akka allows you to write systems that self-heal and stay responsive in the face of failures.
Reactive Streaming Data
Asynchronous non-blocking stream processing with backpressure. Fully async and streaming HTTP server and client provides a great platform for building microservices.
Simpler Concurrent & Distributed Systems
Actors and Streams let you build systems that scale up, using the resources of a server more efficiently, and out, using multiple servers.
Elastic & Decentralized
Distributed systems without single points of failure. Load balancing and adaptive routing across nodes. Event Sourcing and CQRS with Cluster Sharding.
High Performance
Up to 200 million messages per second on a single machine. Small memory footprint. 2.5 million actors per GB of heap.
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.
Meet Our Akka Experts
Our team of skilled professionals brings unmatched expertise in Reactive Architecture, distributed systems, and application modernization. With years of experience leveraging Akka’s powerful framework, we’ve designed and deployed scalable, resilient, and high-performing systems for industries like logistics, finance, and travel. Whether guiding clients through their digital transformation journey or delivering hands-on training, our experts are dedicated to ensuring your success with Akka.
Thomas Cousens
Channel Partner Manager
Sarthak Routh
Marketing Manager
Esther MacWilliams
Engagement Manager
Russell Cornwall
Automations Engineer
Bryan Penner
Account Director
Michael McLachlan
Business Development Lead
Adam Peck
Vice President of Sales and Recruiting
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.
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.
Integrations & Extensions
Akka seamlessly integrates with external systems and tools, offering enhanced functionality through connectors, gRPC protocols, and advanced cluster management.
Architectural Patterns
Akka supports proven architectural models like Reactive Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Microservices to deliver flexible, high-performing solutions.
Deployment & Orchestration
Flexible deployment options, including cloud-native, Kubernetes, and serverless environments, ensure Akka solutions meet your operational needs.
Programming & Development
Leverage powerful programming languages, build tools, and IDEs to streamline development and testing of Akka-based systems.
Streaming & Messaging
Akka excels in processing and managing real-time data streams and asynchronous messaging for dynamic, high-traffic applications.
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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