What are the language and product alternatives to Akka?

Question

Right now I\'m looking at Play Framework and like it a lot. One of the parts heavy advertised amongst the features offered in Play is Akka.

In order to better understand

Answer 1

Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building concurrent & distributed systems. To achieve this, Akka use Actor model. If you are looking for an alternative for Akka, i think you can not find a complete solution like Akka, because Akka have several features that enable you to develop robust concurrent & distributed system:

• Akka actor
• Actor Routing, Supervising and Monitoring
• Asynchronous and non-blocking messaging
• Akka Cluster (for cluster management)
• Akka persistence (for implementing Event sourcing, persistence actor and At-Least-Once Delivery messaging)
• Akka I/O (for TCP & UDP communication)
• Akka HTTP (for HTTP communication as client or server)
• Akka Stream (for stream processing)
• ...

But i suggest to take a look at Erlang/OTP and Quasar.