The combination of extensible, open, dynamically scalable infrastructure (Kubernetes plus Kudo), with an extensible, open stateful runtime (Akka) opens up amazing possibilities.

In this compilation video, we ask five engineers with experience using Akka how this distributed systems toolkit has made their lives easier.

In this special guest webinar with Akka expert and Reactive System Consultant, Manuel Bernhardt, we review Akka 2.6 release highlights and a selection of 6 former anti-patterns that have now been rendered impossible by design.

This blog post begins with details about how the Consumer and Alpakka Kafka internals are designed to facilitate asynchronous polling and back-pressure.

With this latest update of Alpakka Kafka 2.0, the Alpakka group in the Akka team at Lightbend took a few minutes to answer some questions about this exciting release. 

In this guest webinar with Chris McDermott, Lead Data Engineer at HPE, learn how HPE InfoSight–powered by Lightbend Platform–has emerged as the go-to solution for providing real-time metrics and predictive analytics for data center technologies.

In this short post about the recentl release of Play 2.8 and Lagom 1.6, we sit down with members of our engineering team to find out what there is to know.

We are pleased to announce a new release of Lightbend Telemetry, a suite of monitoring and observability tooling for Lightbend technologies.

Take a moment to watch Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate, speaker, and O'Reilly author, describe how Akka makes his life easier, and why Akka is a great match for cloud native applications.

Take a moment to watch Manuel Bernhardt, Reactive Systems Consultant, describe how Akka makes his life easier, and why Akka is a great match for cloud native applications.

Kikia Carter, Principal Enterprise Architect, describes why Akka makes her life easier, and why it's the right match for cloud native applications.

Helena Edelson, Principal Engineer, speaker, and community leader, describes why she likes building systems with Akka, and why it's the right match for cloud native applications.

Colin Breck, System Architect and Engineering Manager, describes how Akka makes his life easier, and why Akka is a great match for cloud native applications.

In this Lightbend podcast, I sit down with Dr. Mark Lewis, professor of computer science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss the benefits he sees of teaching Scala to introductory computer science students

In this special roundtable conversation about all things Akka, we sit down with notable Akka experts Helena Edelson, Johan Andrén, and Manuel Bernhardt, to discuss the recent release of Akka 2.6, which introduces the long-awaited Typed Actor API to overall toolkit.

In this talk by Craig Blitz, Senior Product Director at Lightbend, we take a look at how Cloudflow mitigates common failure patterns in projects moving from batch to stream processing.

Lightbend recently introduced Cloudflow, an open source framework hosted at cloudflow.io that addresses the full application lifecycle for developing, deploying and operating streaming data pipelines on Kubernetes.

In this talk by David Ogren, Enterprise Architect at Lightbend, we draw from experiences helping our clients successfully create, migrate to, and manage cloud-native system architectures.

The Akka team at Lightbend and overall Akka community are delighted to announce the immediate availability of Akka 2.6.

In today’s presentation by Lightbend Solution Architects Trevor Burton-McCreadie and Nolan Grace, we focus on building, deploying, and managing a real-time fraud detection application with Lightbend Pipelines.