We are pleased to announce a new release of Lightbend Telemetry, a suite of observability tooling for Lightbend Platform. This release includes new instrumentation providing key visibility into Akka’s Persistent Actors and Lagom’s Persistent Entities.

This articles covers messaging within an Akka distributed actor systems, the concepts covered here also apply to messaging within microservice systems.

This article is the second in a series of three articles that dives into some of the interesting aspects of messaging within distributed systems environments.

This article is the last in our "How Akka Works" series that dives into some of the interesting aspects of messaging within distributed systems environments.

In this webinar by Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate at Lightbend, we take a look at how Akka and Kubernetes enjoy a symbiotic relationship, using live “crop circle” visuals to help.

Lightbend recently teamed with Groupon to tell the story of their adoption of Akka and Play Framework to solve issues of throughput, scalability, and resilience against downtime in their most critical systems.

Lightbend, EPFL, and the Scala Center recently released Scala 2.13. As this release paves the way for Scala 3 later in 2020, the Scala team at Lightbend took the opportunity to answer a few questions...

In this talk by Jonas Bonér, Lightbend CTO/Co-Founder and creator of Akka, we will explore the nature of events, what it means to be event-driven, and how we can unleash the power of events and commands by applying an events first, domain-driven design to microservices-based architectures.

In our continuing series on Design Techniques For Building Stateful Cloud-Native Applications (see Part 1, Part 2. and Part 3), we now take a look at message delivery, including some basic review of RPC, REST, Actors and more...

Jonas Bonér, creator of Akka and CTO/Co-Founder of Lightbend, reflects on 10 years of Akka bringing successful applications to the cloud for many of the worlds most admired brands. 

Akka 2.5.0 was released 2 years ago, and since then we have released 22 patch releases. This means that it's high time for a new minor release...

After much testing and intense development of a few important features, we are confident that Akka Typed has the quality and performance to be used in production.

We’re pleased to announce a new release of Lightbend Telemetry, part of Lightbend Platform.

In this Ask Lightbend Anything blog series, my colleague Alexander Golubyev, Senior Consultant at Lightbend, compiled a list of the most frequently asked questions from our conversations with hundreds of enterprises.

In this webinar with special guest Fabio Tiriticco, we will explore how Akka is the perfect companion to Kubernetes, providing the application level requirements needed to successfully deploy and manage your cloud-native services with technologies built specifically for cloud-native applications, like Kubernetes.

In this talk by Gerard Maas, O’Reilly author and Senior Software Engineer at Lightbend, we focus on choosing the right Fast Data stream processing features of Apache Spark, taking a practical, code-driven look at the two APIs available for this: the mature Spark Streaming and its younger sibling, Structured Streaming.

Lightbend CTO and Co-Founder, Jonas Bonér, releases a new white paper describing how to use Akka and Kubernetes for cloud-native applications.

In this webinar by Lightbend’s Eric Loots, Scala & Tooling Practice Lead, and Kikia Carter, Principal Enterprise Architect, we use a simple yet powerful visualization of a 5-node, Raspberry Pi-based cluster to reveal the inner workings of Akka Cluster.

In this Lightbend podcast, we sit down with Wade Waldron, Microservices Practice Lead at Lightbend, to discuss a question that we hear frequently from Lightbend customers and the OSS community: should we use Play Framework, Lagom Framework, or Akka HTTP for our next application?

In this "Tales From The Road" story by Michael Read, Senior Consultant at Lightbend, we take a look at achieving operational visibility into the difficult-to-monitor area of asynchronous microservices communication.