alpakka

Akka
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*Akka is a powerful platform that simplifies building and operating highly responsive, resilient, and scalable services.*


The platform consists of
* the [**Akka SDK**](https://doc.akka.io/) for straightforward, rapid development with AI assist and automatic clustering. Services built with the Akka SDK are automatically clustered and can be deployed on any infrastructure.
* and [**Akka Automated Operations**](https://doc.akka.io/operations/akka-platform.html), a managed solution that handles everything for Akka SDK services from auto-elasticity to multi-region high availability running safely within your VPC.

The **Akka SDK** and **Akka Automated Operations** are built upon the foundational [**Akka libraries**](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-dependencies/current/), providing the building blocks for distributed systems.

Alpakka
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Systems don't come alone. In the modern world of microservices and cloud deployment, new components must interact with legacy systems, making integration an important key to success. Reactive Streams give us a technology-independent tool to let these heterogeneous systems communicate without overwhelming each other.

The Alpakka project implements stream-aware & reactive integration pipelines for Java and Scala. It is built on top of [Akka Streams](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-core/current/stream/index.html), and has been designed from the ground up to understand streaming natively and provide a DSL for reactive and stream-oriented programming, with built-in support for backpressure. Akka Streams is a [Reactive Streams](http://www.reactive-streams.org/) and JDK 9+ [java.util.concurrent.Flow](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/10/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/Flow.html)-compliant implementation and therefore [fully interoperable](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-core/current/general/stream/stream-design.html#interoperation-with-other-reactive-streams-implementations) with other implementations.

The Akka family of projects is managed by teams at [Lightbend](https://lightbend.com) with help from the community.

Reference Documentation
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The reference documentation for all Akka libraries is available via [doc.akka.io/libraries/](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/), details for the Akka HTTP library
for [Scala](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/alpakka/current/?language=scala) and [Java](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/alpakka/current/?language=java).

The current versions of all Akka libraries are listed on the [Akka Dependencies](https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-dependencies/current/) page. Releases of the Akka HTTP library in this repository are listed on the [GitHub releases](https://github.com/akka/alpakka/releases) page.

Contributing
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[Lightbend](https://www.lightbend.com/) is committed to Alpakka and has an Alpakka team working on it.

Contributions are *very* welcome! The Alpakka team appreciates community contributions by both those new to Alpakka and those mor