Lightbend, the provider of the “Akka” platform for building large-scale cloud-native apps, announced its entry to the serverless computing industry, through its “Akka Serverless” platform. The platform is in open beta, with general availability scheduled for later this year. 

Akka Serverless enables high-performance business applications to be run on a serverless framework, by managing distributed state at scale, thereby supporting a range of industries such as IoT, ecommerce systems, media streaming, internet-based gaming, and factory automation, among others.

Akka Serverless lets developers build serverless apps in any programming language and eliminates the need for databases in app deployment. 

Founded in 2010, Lightbend offers the “Akka” platform for building large-scale, distributed applications optimized to run on cloud-native infrastructures, such as RedHat Openshift. The platform provides scalable microservices frameworks for running on containers. As of May 2020, Akka was used by over one million developers in enterprises including, Capital One, Fortnite, LinkedIn, and PayPal, among others.