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>`_

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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  Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA

**Service backend (any industry, any app)**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Service REST, SOAP, Cometd, WebSockets etc
   Act as message hub / integration layer
   Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA

**Concurrency/parallelism (any app)**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Correct
   Simple to work with and understand
   Just add the jars to your existing JVM project (use Scala, Java, Groovy or JRuby)

**Simulation**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Master/Worker, Compute Grid, MapReduce etc.

**Batch processing (any industry)**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Camel integration to hook up with batch data sources
   Actors divide and conquer the batch workloads

**Communications Hub (Telecom, Web media, Mobile media)**
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   Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA

**Gaming and Betting (MOM, online gaming, betting)**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA

**Business Intelligence/Data Mining/general purpose crunching**
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   Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA

**Complex Event Stream Processing**
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA