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@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ quadrant:   languages-and-frameworks
 
 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 like FTP, S3 buckets, AMQP brokers or different databases.
+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 also contains transformations for working with XML, CSV or
+reactive fashion and contains transformations for working with XML, CSV or
 JSON structured data.
 
-Akka Streams and Alpakka combined enables us to build small reactive
-integration services with minimal resource consumption and good performance and
-are good alternative to bigger ESB solutions or integration tools.
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+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.