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Examples of use-cases for Akka
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There is a great discussion on use-cases for Akka with some good write-ups by production users `here <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4493001/good-use-case-for-akka/4494512#4494512>`_
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Here are some of the areas where Akka is being deployed into production
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**Transaction processing (Online Gaming, Finance/Banking, Trading, Statistics, Betting, Social Media, Telecom)**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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**Service backend (any industry, any app)**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Service REST, SOAP, Cometd, WebSockets etc
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Act as message hub / integration layer
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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**Concurrency/parallelism (any app)**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Correct
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Simple to work with and understand
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Just add the jars to your existing JVM project (use Scala, Java, Groovy or JRuby)
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**Simulation**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Master/Worker, Compute Grid, MapReduce etc.
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**Batch processing (any industry)**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Camel integration to hook up with batch data sources
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Actors divide and conquer the batch workloads
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**Communications Hub (Telecom, Web media, Mobile media)**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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**Gaming and Betting (MOM, online gaming, betting)**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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**Business Intelligence/Data Mining/general purpose crunching**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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**Complex Event Stream Processing**
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA
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