This document discusses reactive and parallel programming using Akka. It introduces Akka, an open-source toolkit for building distributed, concurrent applications on the JVM. Akka supports actors, futures, software transactional memory, and message passing to handle concurrency. Akka cluster allows building fault-tolerant distributed systems. Examples demonstrate using Akka for microservices, streaming engines, authentication platforms, and IoT applications. The document concludes with an example of how Agile Lab uses Akka in their applications.