Case Study: Cake Solutions doubles turnover and speeds time-to-market with Akka

A British Consultancy chooses Typesafe

Cake Solutions is a UK enterprise software consultancy (founded 2001) that builds scalable systems for finance, manufacturing and professional services. To stay ahead for investment-backed startups and other clients where late or faulty delivery is unacceptable, Cake needed a more expressive, reliable platform and had to recruit and train engineers in new, non-blocking/reactive approaches.

Cake adopted the Typesafe Platform (Scala, Akka, Play) and brought the whole team up to speed in about 12 months. The firm now runs multiple concurrent projects with growing teams, delivers initial versions in around six months, has taken on more complex concurrent systems, doubled its turnover in a year, and strengthened code quality, delivery speed and market reputation.

Cake Solutions

Guy Remond

CEO