--- title: What is Akka Edge? | daily.dev description: Akka Edge allows for local communication between devices and devices and provides additional compute power. It is built on top of existing Akka tools and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-akka-edge--mlp5izkcr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is Akka Edge? | daily.dev og:description: Akka Edge allows for local communication between devices and devices and provides additional compute power. It is built on top of existing Akka tools and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-akka-edge--mlp5izkcr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mlP5IzKCR.png og:image:alt: What is Akka Edge? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is Akka Edge? **[Lightbend](https://daily.dev/sources/lightbend)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Akka Edge allows for local communication between devices and devices and provides additional compute power. It is built on top of existing Akka tools and supports event sourcing and event-driven communication. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#akka](https://daily.dev/tags/akka), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-akka-edge--mlp5izkcr) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What is Akka Edge?","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-akka-edge--mlp5izkcr","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-akka-edge--mlp5izkcr"},"datePublished":"2023-11-06T21:20:44.690Z","dateModified":"2024-11-16T02:19:46.777Z","description":"Akka Edge allows for local communication between devices and devices and provides additional compute power. It is built on top of existing Akka tools and...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eafd8e98bcddc755cddc2d1fcd3ee3f7?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/eafd8e98bcddc755cddc2d1fcd3ee3f7?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lightbend","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lightbend","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/lightbend","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lightbend"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-akka-edge--mlp5izkcr","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"akka,architecture,distributed-systems","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lightbend","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lightbend"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"What is Akka Edge?"}]} ```