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In this short podcast with Will Sargent, presenter, trainer, consultant and senior engineer on the Play team at Lightbend, we go over what’s coming in Play 2.6, which features you can already test out now, and conclude with some background on just what makes Play Framework so fast compared to other JVM frameworks out there.

With April swooshing by, we're a step closer to the warmer months again. Time to check how the communities have been working on Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala and which surprises you may have missed in April.

This article takes a deeper look at how three traditional, brick-and-mortar style businesses–Norwegian Cruise Lines, Swisscom and UniCredit Group–crossed the chasm into Fast Data with technologies, support and services from Lightbend.

In this webinar, Dustin Lyons, Engineering Manager at Credit Karma, discusses how his team migrated away from PHP and successfully implemented Akka Streams with Apache Kafka to ingest, process and route real-time events throughout their data ecosystem.

We’re changing how developers get started with Lightbend technologies, which unfortunately means that future releases of Play, Akka and Scala will no longer include Activator support as of May 24, 2017, and Lightbend’s Activator server will be decommissioned by the end of 2017.

Lightbend and Datadog are excited to announce the official Datadog integration for Akka, enabling Datadog users building Akka-based Reactive applications to gain real-time insights into their applications for ensuring the health, availability and performance of their systems.

Today, we announced in a press release the upcoming availability and early access to the HPE Fortify Scala plugin. Developed by HPE and Lightbend, the HPE Fortify Scala plugin automatically identifies code-level security vulnerabilities early in the SDLC, so you can confidently and reliably secure your mission-critical applications.

In this interview by O'Reilly Media, Lightbend's Duncan DeVore draws over 10 years of experience building Reactive systems to review the basics of what Fast Data is, how to address of design challenges for architects and developers, and discuss the importance of having a Reactive foundation for the next generation of streaming and Fast Data systems.

In this new white paper, we outline the functions a modern monitoring solution must perform in order to truly benefit from the advantages promised by Fast Data and streaming applications.

In this podcast with Patrik Nordwall, Akka Tech Lead at Lightbend, we review what’s new and improved in Akka 2.5 and what your teams should know in order to get the most out this release.

Now that summer is approaching, it's a good time to check out the latest developments in the Akka, Scala, Play and Lagom communities. With many conferences last month and even more amazing blog posts, our new tech digest gives you a solid overview on what you may have missed last month.

In this Lightbend webinar, we present what to look for in an effective monitoring solution for streaming and Fast Data applications, including a demo of Lightbend Monitoring using sample scenarios to show how we can help your team not just in production, but also during development to catch performance issues before you even deploy.

In a surprising shift from Reactive, Lightbend has announced the upcoming availability of Rëtrö, a new framework for making monoliths as powerful and easy to manage as they once were. Designed from the ground up for building synchronous, blocking applications more casually than ever before, Rëtrö aims to bring back the glory days of software development.

Lighbend is proud to announce that it has secured rights to be the official sponsor of the 2017 Solar Eclipse, which will take place on August 21st, 2017. Mark Brewer, Lightbend CEO, announced the sponsorship at a press conference held earlier today.

Scala Days will be held in Chicago in April and Copenhagen in May. Check out the full agenda and buy your ticket before the events sell out.

Lightbend is in the business of delivering frameworks and tools that drive the Reactive (www.reactivemanifesto.org) mantra forward, and when it came time to define a layer of service deployment that drives high resource utilization, enterprise security features and a vibrant ecosystem of like-minded technologies, we selected DC/OS, both as the primary deployment framework for our new Fast Data Platform and the Lightbend Production Suite.

In this webinar with Sean Glover, Senior Consultant at Lightbend and industry veteran, we examine the rise of streaming systems built around Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra and Kafka, their role in handling endless streams of data to gain real-time insights, and how Lightbend Fast Data Platform (FDP) brings them together in a comprehensive, easy to use, integrated platform, which includes installation, integration, and monitoring tools tuned for various deployment scenarios, plus sample applications.

Lightbend attended the first conferences of the season, including JFokus, DevNexus and a number of user group meetups. Now it's time to look into what else the communities around Scala, Akka, Play and Lagom have been up to and pick your lunch break reads for the coming weeks.