> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.goakt.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Production Usage

> Who runs GoAkt in production, and what to wire up before you join them.

GoAkt has been in development since 2022 and runs in production today. This page lists known adopters and the parts of
the framework worth configuring before your own launch.

## In production

* **[Baki Money](https://www.baki.money/)**: AI-powered expense tracking platform that turns receipts into stories.
* **[Event Processor](https://www.v-app.io/iot-builder-3/)**: clustered Complex Event Processor (CEP) for IoT data
  streams.

<Note>
  Running GoAkt in production? Open a [discussion](https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt/discussions) or a pull request
  against the README to be added to this list.
</Note>

## Before you go live

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Supervision" icon="shield-check" href="/actor/supervision">
    Decide how each actor subtree fails: directives, restart budgets, and backoff. The defaults are sensible, but
    payment flows and ingest pipelines rarely want the same policy.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Coordinated shutdown" icon="power" href="/advanced/coordinated-shutdown">
    Register shutdown hooks so deploys and scale-downs drain mailboxes and release resources instead of dropping
    in-flight work.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Observability" icon="activity" href="/advanced/observability">
    Export system and actor metrics through OpenTelemetry, watch the event stream for lifecycle signals, and monitor
    dead letters. A rising dead-letter count is usually the first symptom of a bug.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Passivation" icon="moon" href="/actor/passivation">
    Tune idle and capacity-based passivation so memory tracks the working set rather than the total number of entities
    ever seen.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Service discovery" icon="search" href="/clustering/service-discovery">
    Pick the provider that matches your platform: Kubernetes, Consul, etcd, NATS, mDNS, DNS-SD, a static list, or the
    self-managed LAN mode.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Transport security" icon="lock" href="/advanced/remoting#tls">
    Enable TLS on remoting; the same configuration also secures cluster transports when clustering is on.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Keeping your deployment secure

Routinely upgrade your Go version and refresh dependencies. GoAkt keeps its own dependencies current and runs
vulnerability checks, but the application build is yours. To report a vulnerability, use GitHub's
[Report a Vulnerability](https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt/security/advisories/new) form.

## Getting help

Community support happens in [Discussions](https://github.com/Tochemey/goakt/discussions) and on
[Slack](https://join.slack.com/t/oss-r2l2029/shared_invite/zt-42zcqua8y-unSUH0tFlOQzwT_smzYfOQ). For priority support on
complex topics or to fund new features, consider [sponsorship](https://github.com/sponsors/Tochemey).