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Akka vs NServiceBus: What are the differences?
Developers describe Akka as "Build powerful concurrent & distributed applications more easily". Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM. On the other hand, NServiceBus is detailed as "*Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability for your workflows and integrations *". Performance, scalability, pub/sub, reliable integration, workflow orchestration, and everything else you could possibly want in a service bus.
Akka can be classified as a tool in the "Concurrency Frameworks" category, while NServiceBus is grouped under "Message Queue".
Akka is an open source tool with 10.2K GitHub stars and 3.07K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Akka's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Akka has a broader approval, being mentioned in 102 company stacks & 301 developers stacks; compared to NServiceBus, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.
Pros of Akka
- Great concurrency model32
- Fast17
- Actor Library12
- Open source10
- Resilient7
- Message driven5
- Scalable5
Pros of NServiceBus
- Not as good as alternatives, good job security1
- Brings on-prem issues to the cloud1
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Cons of Akka
- Mixing futures with Akka tell is difficult3
- Closing of futures2
- No type safety2
- Very difficult to refactor1
- Typed actors still not stable1