Akka is an open-source toolkit and runtime simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM. It implements the actor model known from Erlang.
From its website:
We believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction. Akka is here to change that. Using the Actor Model and Software Transactional Memory, we raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications. For fault-tolerance, we adopt the "Let it crash" / "Embrace failure" model, which has been used with great success in the telecom industry to build applications that self-heal, and systems that never stop. Actors also provide the abstraction for transparent distribution and the basis for truly scalable and fault-tolerant applications. Akka is Open Source and available under the Apache 2 License.
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What does AKKA mean?
It is the name of a beautiful Swedish mountain up in the northern part of Sweden called Laponia. The mountain is also sometimes called ‘The Queen of Laponia’.
Akka is also the name of a goddess in the Sámi (the native Swedish population) mythology. She is the goddess that stands for all the beauty and good in the world. The mountain can be seen as the symbol of this goddess.
Also, the name AKKA is a palindrome of letters A and K as in Actor Kernel.
Akka is also:
- the name of the goose that Nils travelled across Sweden on in The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf.
- the Finnish word for ‘nasty elderly woman’ and the word for ‘elder sister’ in the Indian languages Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Marathi.
- a font
- a town in Morocco
- a near-earth asteroid
