The Lightbend engineering teams have released Lightbend Orchestration 1.7.1., Lagom 1.4.11, and sbt 1.3.18 for your immediate use. Enjoy!

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?

As our relationship with IBM continues to produce fantastic tools for the Java and Scala developer community, we're happy to share our latest offering: IBM’s Reactive Platform Development Accelerator.

We blew through September, which is a month where even the most southern parts of Germany (where I'm from) send all their boys and girls back to school. This monthly Tech Digest brings you the latest news around Scala, Akka, Lagom and Play. A big thank you to this awesome community for all your contributions!

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." That is how Albert Camus put it. We made it back from summer vacation and it is time to gear back up into work mode. Here's a good opportunity to start over is to check in with what you might have missed last month. A big thank you to this awesome community for all your contributions!

"One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by." The wonderful quote by American author, Jeannette Walls beautifully expresses what summertime was all about for me when I was in school. Summer break was finally there and there's nothing to worry about for a couple of weeks before we had to start over again. Growing older with less vacations than my daughters have today, I still enjoy this time of the year to catch up on reading. And there's a lot to learn because of our awesome community which never stops contributing.

I am Summer, come to lure you away from your computer ... and we all deserve the upcoming break. But this doesn't stop us or our community to create amazing new content and give you some summer time reading. A big thank you to our community for creating so much amazing content sharing the knowledge on how to use Reactive technologies in the right ways.

With Scala Days just behind us and summer holidays ahead of us, we're gearing up for hot weather with plenty of new releases, events, and community driven articles...

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to the first Tech Digest in 2017. The year has been off to an intense start and I'm happy to present the latest installment of the best resources around the Lightbend communities. 

This is the last Tech Digest in 2016. While hopefully all of you enjoy some downtime during the holiday season, we end this year with a recap of the happenings in our community in December.

Winter is coming. But nothing stops the November Tech Digest on Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala!

Scala By the Bay (SBTB) is the oldest and biggest West Coast Scala conference in the US, continuously run since 2013. For years Typesafe, now Lightbend, has been instrumental in its home community. We are happy to extend our special discount LIGHTBEND20 to the whole conference, fully hosted at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters for the first time on November 11-13. 

Switching on the lights to fight the dark half of the year. The October Tech Digest is here to learn about Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala!

Starting into Autumn with the September Update on Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala. Now it’s time to sit back, grab a coffee and relax while you read through this month’s highlights!

In this webinar for Architects, guest speaker Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Vice-President and Principal Analyst, joins Jonas Bonér, CTO/Co-founder of Lightbend and creator of Akka, the actor-based, message-driven runtime for the JVM, to discuss one emerging programming pattern that’s gaining popularity with teams developing for the cloud––the Actor model.

August is typically a month filled with vacation, sunburn and the other joys of summer. It's a month where we all take it a bit slower and try to gather more energy for the rest of the year. But it turns out that our amazingly active communities never sleep. And there's been plenty of news and highlights. This Tech Digest is designed to help folks specifically interested in Lightbend technologies like Akka, Play, Lagom and Scala to find what they need faster. So sit back, grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the most important information of last month in a single post.

Welcome to our first Lightbend Tech Digest! It's so exciting to keep finding new places where great technical content is published as our communities continue to grow. Inspired by the amazing efforts of our friends like SoftwareMills' Scala Times, Cake Solutions team blog, the Knoldus blog and many others, we wanted to help folks specifically interested in Lightbend technologies like Akka, Play, Lagom and Scala to find what they need faster.

In this talk by Jamie Allen, noted author, speaker and Senior Director of Global Solution Architects at Lightbend, we will focus on how to avoid traditional anti-patterns when building your next generation of services. Jamie describes the requirements for constructing elastic, resilient service-based applications that can handle tremendous amounts of data in real time, and to discuss the new Lightbend framework for Microservices-based applications called Lagom.

I talked to Andreas Evers from our partner, Ordina, about Lagom and microservices and what the ecosystem looks like today.

It seems like everyone is talking, writing, and thinking about Microservices architecture these days. Still, there is more confusion around what it is, and how to deliver on it, than ever...

Aimed at Operations and Architects, this webinar by ConductR tech lead Christopher Hunt presents the second of two introductory webinars on Lagom, focusing on ensuring resilient deployments that scale in and out on demand.

James Roper, the tech lead for both Lagom and Play Framework, introduces our latest MVP and shows Java developers how to get started decomposing their monolithic systems in favor of a Microservices-based approach.

I interviewed our newest Lightbender and my good friend, Markus Eisele, while sitting in the LAX Hilton. He tells me why he made a big move, and the future of microservices in the enterprise Java world.

We’re still basking in all the novelty and excitement of our Lightbend rebrand. Over the last week, the amount of congratulatory messages and compliments we’ve received on our new website design and project initiatives has been overwhelming and flattering––a huge and sincere thank you to all of our supporters. The announcement also surfaced some important questions about our commitment to the Scala ecosystem. We decided to address them through a short Q&A blog post. We hope you find the responses assuring and clear. Feel free to reach out to us directly with any other concerns or thoughts.