Case Study: 47 Degrees achieves scalable, reactive back-ends and 4x developer productivity with Akka

47 Degrees adopts the Typesafe Platform

47 Degrees is a software development and creative agency that builds native mobile apps and highly scalable back ends, with a specialty in event-driven applications where thousands of users interact simultaneously. Their Java/Spring back-ends struggled with unpredictable peak loads and tedious boilerplate, harming developer productivity and risking missed deadlines for clients running business‑critical events.

They adopted the Typesafe Platform—Scala, Play and Akka—to leverage existing Java libraries while gaining a stateless, share‑nothing architecture and powerful concurrency primitives. Within a month they reported roughly a fourfold productivity increase, a smaller codebase, predictable horizontal scaling on cloud platforms, and reduced delivery risk and maintenance effort, enabling reliable performance at peak times and faster time‑to‑market.

47 Degrees

Raúl Raja Martínez

Co-Founder