Global 5000 enterprises that never before considered themselves as technology companies are now faced with digital business imperatives that force them to modernize their infrastructure.

To address all the shortcomings of traditional monolithic Java EE applications and the heavyweight middleware and infrastructure needed to run them, developers must shift their thinking.

To address the business challenges of modernization, many of the most admired brands around the globe come to Lightbend to transform their businesses with scalable, high-performance microservices frameworks and streaming engines for building data-centric systems that are optimized to run on cloud-native infrastructure.