About Us News, articles, code snippets and more by the hakkers in the Akka community. Links: Akka Home Akka Docs I’ve seen a question pop up a number of times on the Akka Mailing List that looks something like: “How do you tell Akka to shut down the ActorSystem when everything’s finished?” It turns out that there’s no magical flag for this, no configuration setting, no special callback you can reg