Case Study: Akka empowers developers to build elastic, resilient, cloud-native applications with IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Empower Developers With IBM Cloud Pak for Data and Lightbend

Akka faced the challenge of enabling developers to build and deploy machine‑learning models and real‑time, microservices-based streaming applications without being burdened by complex data infrastructure. To meet the need for cloud-native elasticity, resilience and portability, Akka worked with Lightbend technology alongside IBM Cloud Pak for Data as the central data and AI platform.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data delivered a Kubernetes-native, centralized platform with data governance, data federation and AI model authoring, giving Akka a single view of data management and the ability to run applications anywhere. By using IBM Cloud Pak for Data, Akka gained greater developer productivity, faster iteration, reduced vendor lock-in and more resilient, portable applications—cutting operational risk and accelerating time-to-market.

Akka

Karl Wehden

Vice President of Product Strategy