In this series of blog posts, we introduce a proof of concept that implements a highly consistent, and performant distributed cache with a persistence backing using Akka, Cassandra, and Scala.

Lightbend is providing free online access to Lightbend Academy for any technologist looking to learn Reactive Architecture or sharpen their Scala skills—all from the comfort of home.

In this guest webinar with Chris McDermott, Lead Data Engineer at HPE, learn how HPE InfoSight–powered by Lightbend Platform–has emerged as the go-to solution for providing real-time metrics and predictive analytics for data center technologies.

In this Lightbend podcast, I sit down with Dr. Mark Lewis, professor of computer science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss the benefits he sees of teaching Scala to introductory computer science students

sbt 1.3.0 is available with exciting changes, including out-of-box Coursier library management, IO improvements, super shell, and "turbo" mode that enables experimental ClassLoader layering.

Join Dr. Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala and co-founder of Lightbend, on a tour of what is in store and highlight some of his favorite features of Dotty, which will become Scala 3.

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...

See how Fortify SCA for Scala works differently from existing Static Code Analysis tools to help you uncover security issues early in the SDLC of your mission-critical applications...

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

In this special guest webinar with Holden Karau, speaker, author and Developer Advocate at Google, we’ll take a walk through some of the interesting Spark 3.0 JIRA tickets, look at external components being developed (like deep learning support), and also talk about the future of running real-time Spark workloads on Kubernetes.

Although Scala 2.12 was released almost two years ago, it was not straightforward to upgrade Apache Spark to use it. This article describes the role of several Lightbend engineers in making this a happy reality.

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.8 patch release is available.

Hi everyone. We have two patch releases sbt 1.2.7 and sbt 0.13.18.

The Scala compiler has included an inliner starting in Scala version 2.0.

Make sure to register with our 15% discount before November 1st to see Martin Odersky, Seth Tissue, Sean Glover and many many more.

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.6 patch release is available.

Hi everyone. sbt 1.2.4 patch release is available.

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.

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