Lightbend Launches Akka 24.05 with a Focus on Security, Performance, and Efficiency
May 22 2024 - 9:00AM
Lightbend, inventors of the Akka distributed application platform,
today announced the latest version of Akka, version 24.05. This
latest version delivers new functionality across multiple
categories, including performance, security, compliance, ecosystem
support, and additional edge computing capabilities. New features
include support for Zero Trust compliance support, database
sharding, Java 21 support, and Rust support.
“As security, performance, and ecosystem support demand continue
to evolve, Akka is innovating to meet these new market realities,”
said Jonas Bonér, Lightbend co-founder and CTO. “That includes a
continued focus on security and compliance, particularly in the
wake of open source vulnerabilities such as the recent issue
associated with xz utils. More and more of our enterprise customers
are prioritizing this as threats continue to emerge and new
regulations are implemented globally.”
Akka provides a singular programming model that eliminates the
high latency, large footprint, and complexity barriers current
Cloud and Edge architectures pose for development teams wanting to
build highly distributed multi-cloud applications. As a result,
businesses can harness, distribute, and fully utilize their vast
amounts of intelligent data to improve their operations, regardless
of where that data is generated. For version 24.05, there are four
primary categories of enhancements:
- Security and Compliance via Zero Trust
Certification - As new regulations and security issues
with Open Source Software (OSS) continue to proliferate, Lightbend
ensures its platform meets industry security and regulatory
compliance standards. Specifically, Lightbend and Akka have been
audited and attested to be SOC 2 and NIST SF 800 compliant. In
addition, Lightbend continues to invest in Akka security by
offering guidelines on how users can attest to their Akka
distributed applications being ZeroTrust compliant.
- Performance - Database Sharding enables
near-infinite horizontal scale out of database persistence,
eliminating the cost of using a high-performance, centralized
database. This reduces the overall cost for a mission-critical
system but streamlines the architecture and reduces the operational
burden on IT.
- Enhanced Edge Computing Capabilities -
Capability with the Rust programming language, which is extremely
prolific for Edge use cases, enables Akka services to be deployed
on devices with minimal footprint and compute requirements.
- Support for Java 21 - Akka 24.05 is now
certified to support Java 21, which vastly improves conciseness and
lowers the risk of mistakes for developers.
Akka 24.05 and its new capabilities are available today.
Interested parties can join us for a live walkthrough of Akka 24.05
to learn more.
About LightbendLightbend (@Lightbend) is used
by many of the world’s largest brands as the foundation for their
multi-cloud, mission-critical applications. Through Akka, the
industry’s most powerful distributed application platform,
Lightbend provides scalable, high-performance microservices
frameworks and streaming engines for building data-centric systems
optimized to run on cloud native infrastructure. For more
information, visit www.lightbend.com.
Editorial ContactKimberly Falk VP of Marketing,
Lightbend +1 415 515 0686kimberly.falk@lightbend.com
Nichols Communications for LightbendJay Nichols+1 408 772
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