Two technologies–Akka Streams and Kafka Streams–have emerged as popular tools to use with Apache Kafka for addressing the shared requirements of availability, scalability, and resilience for both streaming microservices and Fast Data. So which one should you use for specific use cases?

It's this time of the year again. Top microservices and fast data experts in the world are getting together for a unique learning experience. We handpicked some sessions and workshops for you that we think are particularly interesting if you want to learn more about Microservices and Reactive.

In this webinar by Dr. Dean Wampler, VP of Fast Data Architecture at Lightbend, Inc., we cut through the buzz around Fast Data and explore how to successfully exploit this new opportunity for innovation in how your organization leverages data.

Lightbend and IBM Cognitive Class introduce the first of six free online courses on Reactive Architecture.

Introducing Lightbend Reactive Architecture - Professional, a crash course in thinking differently, guided by experienced Lightbend expert who provides codified lessons learned, best practices, reference architectures, design patterns and analysis techniques when working with Reactive architectures.

In this fireside chat style presentation, Dean Wampler of Lightbend and Matt Aslett of 451 Research will discuss the business justification for transitioning from batch-oriented big data to stream-oriented fast data, and how some of these requirements can be met by leveraging what organizations already know about microservice architectures.

In this Lightbend podcast, we sit down with Renato Cavalcanti (@renatocaval), Senior Engineer on the Lagom team and founder of the Belgium Scala User Group, who tells us about the latest release of Lagom 1.4, some history of Lagom since the 1.0 launch, as well as some ideas the team is working on for future releases.

In this technical webinar by Hugh McKee, O’Reilly author and Developer Advocate at Lightbend, we introduce Akka from A to Z, starting with a tour from the humble actor and finishing all the way at the clustered systems level.

We are happy to announce the availability of Reactive Microsystems, a new O'Reilly report authored by Jonas Bonér, co-founder of Lightbend and creator of the Akka message-driven middleware project.

We are happy to announce the availability of Deploying Reactive Microservices, a new O'Reilly report authored by Edward Callahan, Senior Engineer at Lightbend. In this O’Reilly report, author Edward Callahan demonstrates how you can enable teams to deliver software with precision and confidence.

By now you have likely heard the news that IBM has made a strategic investment in Lightbend to bring Reactive solutions to IBM Platforms. IBM and Lightbend have a history of collaboration, but this strategic investment and relationship will allow enterprise developers to reap the benefits of both Lightbend’s expertise in Reactive microservices and IBM’s expertise in AI and Machine Learning.

Throughout our experiences with hundreds of clients, we’ve seen that our most successful customers have been able to truly accelerate their progress with any new technology if they take the journey with a guide from Lightbend...

Last year, more than 18,000 people registered for over 25 public and private webinars featuring Lightbend engineers, industry luminaries, industry analysts and even a few Lightbend customers, such as Verizon (case study) and PayPal (case study). This comes out to over a full, 24-hour day of presentations, which can be a bit daunting to dive into. So, to make it easier, we've listed the top 10 most popular webinars that we hosted in 2016, according to our registration numbers. We hope you find this list helpful!

In Enterprise Development Trends 2016, we surveyed 2151 JVM engineers about enterprise thoughts around microservices, fast data, cloud infrastructure and container technology. Among tons of fascinating data, we uncovered three major findings from the data collected...

We are proud to present the results of the survey conducted in summer 2016. It was launched to discover: correlations between development trends and IT infrastructure trends, how organizations at the forefront of digital transformation are modernizing their applications, and real production usage break-downs of today's most buzzed about emerging developer technologies.

Just a little more than a week to go and we're super excited to be a bronze sponsor for this year's JavaOne! To also make it exciting for you, we have a lot prepared for you. Make sure to attend the many sessions by our own engineers or about technologies that are part of the Reactive Platform and grab your Lagom t-shirt!

Almost every current monitoring tool relies on a stack frame-based approach where using the stack trace can provide good answers to what caused exceptional states. In asynchronous, message-driven distributed applications, this approach no longer provides any useful information about issues because the path to where you are is no longer available and you don’t know where your code will execute...

Earlier this summer, Lightbend CTO & Co-founder (and creator of Akka) Jonas Bonér  and Enterprise Advocate Kevin Webber were seeing their vacation time more as a far-off dream than a plausible reality. Jonas had just published the free O'Reilly book titled Reactive Microservices Architecture––called "the best single source of the key ideas needed to design modern Reactive systems" by John Nestor––and we wanted to make it even easier to get the principles of microservices architectures into the hands of Enterprise Architects, CTOs, App Dev Managers and other decision makers. With the story of going Reactive with microservices in place, Jonas and Kevin set to work breaking down this concise, valuable book into a three-part series...

Last week, the Lightbend team volunteered at the SF Food Bank, and our VP of Engineering, Derek Henninger, was utterly surprised to find the experience to be an abject lesson in managing Reactive systems (in production!)

Right on the coattails of today's public announcement by Lightbend and Mesosphere, this special co-webinar with Aaron Williams and Markus Eisele discusses traditional architectures and how they are beginning to evolve very quickly to embrace microservices architecture and various cloud and hybrid-cloud deployment models.

Just a couple short years ago, Chris Webster, Associate Fellow at Verizon Communications, was presented with a challenge: how to gain part of the fiercely competitive $40 billion US mobile content market. Working with a new team, a content platform was conceived to provide best-in-class streaming for primetime television, live music and sports. They called it go90, referencing the 90-degree pivot from portrait to landscape mode that many of us use to consume video content...

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.

In our third and final part of The Enterprise Architect's Intro to Microservices, we again welcome Lightbend CTO/co-founder and Akka creator Jonas Bonér to continue where we left off in the six characteristics of Reactive Microservices presented earlier with a simple premise (in the spirit of Carl Hewitt): one microservice is no microservice–they come in systems.

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In Part 2 of our series for Enterprise Architects, Lightbend CTO and Akka creator Jonas Bonér shares the 6 characteristics of Reactive Microservices that matter for having responsive, elastic, resilient systems.

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

As we continue to help organizations modernize their legacy systems with Microservices architecture, our latest mini-book arrives right on time. We are happy to announce the availability of Developing Reactive Microservices: Enterprise Implementation in Java, a new O'Reilly mini-book authored by Java Champion and Lightbend Developer Advocate, Markus Eisele (@myfear).

In Part 1, Enterprise Advocate Kevin Webber will review a bit of history of application development, from the early days of monoliths and SOA to the emergence of Microservice architectures. We will review the drawbacks of heritage architectures and how the principles of Reactive can help you build isolated services that are scalable, resilient to failure, and combine with other services to form a cohesive whole.

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.

As regular blog followers will know, Lightbend has been working with Mesos for a few years now, driven by adoption by a number of our web-scale customers, such as AirBnB.  Over the last year, we’ve been working closely with Mesosphere in order to make important technologies such as Spark work well with Mesos and, by extension, DC/OS.

Following last week's release of Reactive Microservices Architecture: Design Principles for Distributed Systems by Lightbend CTO and creator of Akka, Jonas Bonér, O'Reilly Radar podcast host Brian Foster sits down to discuss the rise of Microservices and distributed systems based on Reactive principles.

Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér has teamed up with O'Reilly Media to publish a new report called Reactive Microservices Architecture: Design Principles for Distributed Systems. Register to get this free report in PDF, MOBI and EPUB formats (or all three!)

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.

We change a monolithic system only when we have no other choice. Traditional enterprise systems are tightly-coupled; all-in-one, all-or-nothing, difficult to scale, difficult to understand and difficult to maintain. In this webinar by battle-hardened Enterprise Advocate, Kevin Webber, we walk through the 6 key concepts to understand as a guide for taking action...

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.

Microservices-based systems have been gaining a lot of attention lately. Martin Fowler, the well-known co-author of the Agile Manifesto, has produced a popular explanation of microservices with James Lewis that has been getting a lot of traction with developers. Industry analyst Gartner is emphasizing the importance of microservices within its enterprise clientele, ranking microservice-based architecture (MSA) within its top 10 strategic technology trends for 2015...

In this webinar by Enterprise Advocate Kevin Webber, we review his experience re-architecting Walmart Canada’s online business after two years in a row of system failures during the worst possible time for ecommerce giants: Black Friday.

When we crowdsourced questions for Viktor Klang, the response inspired one of the most comprehensive, engaging, and hilarious answers I've ever heard.

Our whole company is excited about the results from our Going Reactive 2016 survey. So, I asked the source (and my teammate buddy), Oliver White, to give us an overview.

With this survey, in which over 3000 respondents participated, we we set out to understand the journey of Going Reactive and uncovered some interesting adoption trends around microservices and Fast Data along the way. Big thanks to all of you who participated! We enjoyed pulling this report together and hope you enjoy seeing how your peers are viewing the Reactive landscape.

I am truly excited to talk to one of Typesafe's founders and CTO, Jonas Bonér. He's got thoughts on why actors are essentially microservices, and how communication protocols are important both for your Reactive systems and your love life. 

Whether you call them microservices (the industry favorite), picoservices, uniservices, decoupled services, or even “SOA done right”, one thing is clear: enterprise deployment of microservices-based applications is no longer a fringe concept enjoyed only by a handful of early adopters. 

It’s always fun to see your technology adopted at companies fueling innovation in their field. Our customers at iHeartMedia are doing just that in the radio broadcasting space. In a recent interview with their engineering team, we learned just how critical Typesafe technologies are to helping build new features and tackle microservices.

Typesafe Deputy CTO Viktor Klang goes into the world of microservices to see how these architectures emerge from the constraints of reality. Viktor reviews the problems imposed by reality, and shows how they can not only be solved, but how the constraints free us from misconceptions that are otherwise very easy to acquire. We also explore how distributed systems are at the heart of microservices-based architectures and how communication shapes the structure, behavior and development of the software...