12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Akka first-hand: 5 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I wasted about 15 hours writing some Akka code only to realize that I had to throw it away”
regret · personal · tombert · 2024-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Akka is alright but it's shoehorned onto the JVM.”
mixed · production · ninjakeyboard · 2020-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“our internal distributed test harness uses Akka. This worked out nicely”
endorse · production · freels · 2018-07-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We also really like Akka...”
endorse · production · foobarbazetc · 2018-06-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run an Akka cluster with 5-6 nodes as our backend, clocking in at 15Kloc. It's been running for months now with no problems.”
endorse · production · saryant · 2014-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use the FSM helper [1] heavily in our backend at Conspire. For data-pipeline use cases, it's invaluable.”
endorse · production · saryant · 2013-12-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We have used parallel collections and Akka actors to get good scalability without the usual pain.”
endorse · production · 0.33 yr · jzoidberg · 2011-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Akka, Cats, and Shapeless were all over the place.”
neutral · production · philipkglass · 2021-12-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Akka Typed myself recently.”
neutral · personal · tekacs · 2015-07-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use multiple cloud providers (Digital Ocean and AWS being our primary), Play Framework, AKKA , Ansible for deployment, Shippable for our CI”
neutral · production · doppenhe · 2014-11-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“especially Akka, which we use quite heavily now.”
neutral · production · dansimon · 2014-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Now I'm a full on scala/akka developer and don't regret the change one bit.”
neutral · production · ninjakeyboard · 2013-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?