Discover 8 common Akka anti-patterns and their solutions in this 47-minute conference talk from Scala Days Copenhagen 2017. Explore suboptimal uses of the Akka toolkit for building concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM, including issues with global mutable state, flat actor hierarchies, excessive actor systems, improper logging, hardware misalignment, and time management. Learn from real-world observations and gain insights to improve your Akka-based systems. Ideal for developers responsible for Akka systems in production environments, this talk provides practical alternatives to avoid potential pitfalls and optimize your concurrent application architecture.