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

The platform consists of

• the Akka SDK 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, 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, providing the building blocks for distributed systems.

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 is an open source initiative to implement stream-aware, reactive, integration pipelines for Java and Scala. It is built on top of Akka Streams, 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 and JDK 9+ java.util.concurrent.Flow-compliant implementation and therefore fully interoperable with other implementations.

This repository contains the sources for the Alpakka Kafka connector. Which lets you connect Apache Kafka to Akka Streams. It was formerly known as Akka Streams Kafka and even Reactive Kafka.

Akka Stream connectors to other technologies are listed in the Alpakka repository.

The reference documentation for all Akka libraries is available via doc.akka.io/libraries/, details for the Alpakka Kafka library for Scala and Java.

The current versions of all Akka libraries are listed on the Akka Dependencies page. Releases of the Alpakka Kafka library in this repository are listed on the GitHub releases page.

The Akka family of projects is managed by teams at Lightbend with help from the community.

Contributions are very welcome! Lightbend appreciates community contributions by both those new to Alpakka and those more experienced.

Alpakka depends on the community to keep up with the ever-growing number of technologies with which to integrate. Please step up and share the successful Akka Stream integrations you implement with the Alpakka community.

If you find an issue that you'd like to see fixed, the quickest way to make that happen is to implement the fix and submit a pull request.

Refer to the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more details about the workflow, and general hints on how to prepare your pull request.

You can also ask for clarifications or guidance in GitHub issues directly.

Alpakka components are not always binary compatible between releases. API changes that are not backward compatible might be introduced as we refine and simplify based on your feedback. A module may be dropped in any release without prior deprecation.

Akka is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1, please see the Akka License FAQ.

Tests and documentation are under a separate license, see the LICENSE file in each documentation and test root directory for details.