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!

Having a team adopt new technologies and approaches to software development is a daunting task.  New paradigms and unfamiliar ontologies headline the biggest risks to having a team be productive quickly.  Lightbend has a suite of training classes to help you adopt whatever components of Reactive Platform you need to be responsive to you customers by creating resilient and elastic applications.

In recent years, Fast Data, not Big Data, has been more important to react to real-time events and decision making; slower batch processing of large data sets with Hadoop is not always as important for most SMEs. So if your data pipeline is bloated and ready for an upgrade, this webinar will provide you with an overview of what Spark is and gain an understanding of why it is indeed the right tool to improve your Fast Data strategy.

In this presentation by Dr. Roland Kuhn, we explore several architecture elements that are commonly found in reactive systems, like the circuit breaker, various replication techniques, and flow control protocols. These patterns are language agnostic and also independent of the abundant choice of reactive programming frameworks and libraries. They are well-specified starting points for exploring the design space of a concrete problem: thinking is strictly required!

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.

Inspired by the introduction of functional features in Java 8, namely lambdas, it's even easier than before for Java developers to embrace tools designed for building distributed systems that deliver highly-responsive user experiences. Regardless of whether you code in Java or Scala, Typesafe Reactive Platform, including Play and Akka, provides a resilient and message-driven application stack that scales effortlessly on multicore and cloud computing architectures.

Next week we're hosting three webinars that showcase how Typesafe technologies are used in major retail organizaitons. Check out the speaking list below and register to attend the live event or receive an email link to the recordings. 

Today, we were really lucky enough to have John Nestor and Dragos Manolescu from the Whitepages present their experiences converting from
Ruby to Reactive.

Lambdas have come to Java!  Now that more developers have access to this powerful abstraction, many will wonder about the dynamics of how they work and how to best leverage them in their code.  In our most recent webinar, Ryan Knight discusses why lambdas are useful and how to best leverage them in Scala, Java 8, Clojure and JRuby.

On Tuesday, June 3rd we hosted a full day of webinars all about the Play Framework, featuring speakers from the Typesafe Play team, BBC, Walmart.ca, Huffington Post, Angie’s List, and Gilt. 

Join us for Play Day, our first ever virtual conference on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014. We’re hosting a full day of webinars all about the Play Framework! Speakers from the Typesafe Play team, Huffington Post, Angie’s List, Gilt and more will share their experiences with Play.

Last week we hosted a webinar, Introducing Reactive Streams, with Roland Kuhn, Akka tech lead. Over 900 people registered for the event, and we had some really great questions submitted for the Q&A. Konrad Malawski, software engineer at Typesafe, responded to folks in real time, but we thought our readers might find some of the conversations interesting, so we’re sharing on our blog!

Thanks everyone for joining us for yesterday’s webinar, “Welcome to Scala 2.11!”

Yesterday we hosted a webinar, "Going Reactive with Java 8," which explored how lambdas make building Reactive applications a whole lot easier and cleaner.

As many of our readers know, we've been hosting monthly webinars now since August 2013, and (aside from some problems with Citrix not supporting Linux) have experienced great success sharing content about our platform and related technologies with our community. Some of our most successful webinars have been Stefan Zeiger's Introducing Slick 2.0, Mathias Doenitz' s presentation about Spray on Akka, and James Ward on Optimizing Play for Production. 

Yesterday Stefan Zeiger, Slick tech lead, hosted a webinar about the newly released Slick 2.0. Slick is the most efficient library available for functional programmers connecting applications to relational databases, so this presentation serves as a great way to familiarize yourself with new features and updates. 

A huge thanks to New Relic for participating in our most recent webinar, Monitoring your Play Apps with New Relic! . We asked Tyler Benson, Software Engineer at New Relic, to join us for this presentation since, more and more frequently, our technology is being used to build mission-critical applications and many users turn to New Relic, a powerful application performance monitoring tool, to monitor these apps. 

This week, James Ward hosted a webinar, Optimizing Play for Production.  In the presentation, James teaches you the basics of Play Framework deployment, configuring thread pools, managing blocking and common performance pitfalls to keep things running smoothly.  

This week, our Director of Engineering, Viktor Klang, hosted a webinar—Failure: The Good Parts. In the presentation, Klang explores best practices for recovery, testing and checking when building concurrent, distributed software, and outlines how failure management is not an option.

Join us on October 30th for a webinar with Typesafe's Director of Engineering, the Legend of Viktor Klang, wherein he'll equip you with tools and strategies for dealing for system failures.