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title: Akka.NET Users and Use Cases
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Akka.NET is used by many large organizations in a big range of industries all from investment and merchant banking, retail and social media, simulation, gaming and betting, automobile and traffic systems, health care, data analytics and much more. Any system that have the need for high-throughput and low latency is a good candidate for using Akka.NET.
# Akka.NET Users and Use Cases

There is a great discussion on use-cases for Akka.NET with some good write-ups by production users here
Akka.NET is used by many large organizations and in industries such as investment and merchant banking, retail and social media, simulation, gaming and betting, automobile and traffic systems, health care, data analytics, and much more.
Any system that has the need for high-throughput and low latency is a good candidate for using Akka.NET.

## Akka.NET Users

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> Sam Covington, IVC Business Systems: We had an in-house "Actor" system that we replaced with Akka.Net, which allowed us to innovate and be productive elsewhere, and not reinvent the wheel(not to mention test it to death). This back end of Microservices forms the basis of all of our products and services. We're using it in our Enterprise Social Product, and our new Livescan Office product for Livescan fingerprinting customers.

#### Concurrency/parallelism (any app)
Share of an article by Joel Mueller, Software Architect, SNL Financial
* [SNL Financial (a subsidiary of McGraw Hill): Akka.NET Goes to Wall Street](https://petabridge.com/blog/akkadotnet-goes-to-wall-street/)

#### Simulation
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Scale up, scale out, fault-tolerance / HA

#### Business Intelligence/Data Mining/general purpose crunching
Tweet from Philip Laureano with links.
* [Real-time Clickstream Processing at Domain.au with Octopus Deploy and Akka.NET](https://twitter.com/philiplaureano/status/735976018993778688)


#### Internet of Things
* [Synchromatics: Real-time public transit tracking and analytics using Akka.NET](https://youtu.be/YuY1ziEqifU?t=3m38s)

#### Complex Event Stream Processing
Archive of a blog post by Aaron Stannard from July 2014.

* [MarkedUp Analytics: Real-time Marketing Automation with Distributed Actor Systems and Akka.NET](http://www.aaronstannard.com/markedup-akkadotnet/)

#### Blockchain
NEO is the use of blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets, the use of smart contracts for digital assets to be self-managed, to achieve "smart economy" with a distributed network.
"NEO is a non-profit community-driven blockchain project. It utilizes blockchain technology and digital identity to digitize assets and automate the management of digital assets using smart contracts." (source: neo.org)

* [Website](https://neo.org)
* [Documentation](http://docs.neo.org/en-us/index.html)
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