From real-time data streaming expert and VP of Fast Data Engineering at Lightbend, Dean Wampler, Ph.D., comes the 2nd Edition of his popular O'Reilly eBook Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications.

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.6 patch release is available.

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?

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.4 patch release is available.

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.

Lightbend CTO and co-founder Jonas Bonér joins the Programming Throwdown podcast to discuss the finer points of Akka, Actors, and Reactive.

In this special guest webinar with Mirco Dotta, co-founder of Triplequote LLC (the creators of Hydra), we take a deeper look into what affects Scala compilation speed, why a combination of language features, external libraries, and type annotations make compilation times generally unpredictable, and what you can do to speed it up by orders of magnitude. 

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.3 patch release is available.

You’re probably heard of the “SMACK Stack”, but you may not know that three Lightbend experts–Sean Glover, Stavros Kontopoulos, and Gerard Maas–that recently teamed up with O’Reilly Media on a free eBook about working with the SMACK stack for Fast Data applications (available in PDF, EPUB, and MOBI formats–or all 3 in a .zip folder)!

Machine Learning is one of the hottest topics in software engineering today. While it can deliver major competitive advantages, it’s also very challenging: creating the models is just the first step... 

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.

Welcome our new sbt community maintainer Muki, and some Scala updates

In this webinar with Enno Runne, Tech Lead for Alpakka at Lightbend, Inc., we’ll look at why integrations should be viewed as streams of data, and how Alpakka—a Reactive Enterprise Integration library for Java and Scala based on Reactive Streams and Akka—fits perfectly for today’s demands on system integrations.

Welcome to the Lightbend newsletter update for August 2018! Take a look at the video above to get the low-down in just 1 minute, and for those of you who don't receive our regular monthly newsletter, below you can find what we covered in our latest issue...

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.1 patch release is available with a few important fixes.

The Fast Data team at Lightbend is happy to announce the release of Fast Data Platform version 1.2, adding Kubernetes support plus new features.

Hi everyone. Lightbend Tooling team is happy to announce sbt 1.2.0. This is the second feature release of sbt 1, a binary compatible release focusing on new features. sbt 1 is released under Semantic Versioning, and the plugins are expected to work for sbt 1.x series.

Lightbend is pleased to announce a new release of the commercial Telemetry module, Cinnamon. The Cinnamon 2.10 release includes Akka Stream telemetry, Scala Future metrics, and improvements to the OpenTracing integration. Cinnamon no longer supports Akka 2.3.

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

Lightbend Professional Services helps customers identify performance issues.Today we explain how we solved performance issues at a Fortune 500 Company.