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+title:      "Alpakka"
+ring:       assess
+quadrant:   languages-and-frameworks
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+---
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+When using [Akka Streams](/languages-and-frameworks/akka-streams.html) to build
+reactive data transformation services you usually need to connect to several
+different services such as FTP, S3 buckets, AMQP brokers or different databases.
+
+[Alpakka](https://developer.lightbend.com/docs/alpakka/current/) provides
+integration building blocks for Akka Streams to access these services in a
+reactive fashion and contains transformations for working with XML, CSV or
+JSON structured data.
+
+Combined, Akka Streams and Alpakka enable us to build small reactive
+integration services with minimal resource consumption and good performance, and
+are a good alternative to larger ESB solutions or integration tools.