This talk was recorded at Scala Days New York, 2016. Follow along on Twitter @scaladays and on the website for more information http://scaladays.org/. Abstract: A talk with two main agenda items: how we came to the decision of basing our microservices off Akka cluster, and how we implemented this microservice platform - architecture, tips, lessons learned, and a couple of open source libraries we released to facilitate microservice development with Akka cluster, including a piece of reactive feature we contributed to the Akka core.