Case Study: Judopay achieves faster innovation and reduced infrastructure overhead with Akka Serverless (Lightbend)

Judopay Empowers Developers to Focus on Business Value, not Infrastructure, with Akka Serverless

Judopay, a payments specialist that shifted from a monolithic stack to a reactive microservices architecture with the Akka Platform, built a multi-region, high-availability backbone for its core payment services. However, the need to provision and maintain complex infrastructure for complementary services (risk, reconciliations, onboarding) drained engineering time and made it hard to justify smaller innovation projects.

By participating in Lightbend’s Akka Serverless private beta, Judopay validated a stateful serverless model that lets teams write in the same Akka paradigm and offload infrastructure management. The prototype demonstrated quicker time-to-market and lower operational overhead—eliminating the need to build multi-region Cassandra clusters, cutting delivery from months to weeks, and enabling faster, lower-cost innovation so developers can focus on business value.

Judopay

Rob Howes

Chief Technology Officer