July 13, 2017
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Computer Business Review - IBM Chief Digital Officer: Building Strategy Around the Rock Stars of the Future
Recently a partnership with Lightbend underscored Big Blue’s commitment to the Java and Scala communities.
July 13, 2017
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Recently a partnership with Lightbend underscored Big Blue’s commitment to the Java and Scala communities.
July 13, 2017
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A consortium consisting of IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and four venture capital funds today led a $15 million funding round into Lightbend Inc., the startup co-founded by Scala creator Martin Odersky. The firm offers a development platform designed to help organizations harness the language’s unique features to build better software applications.
July 13, 2017
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The goal is to give Java and Scala developers a complete toolchain for building AI and cognitive applications that run on premises, hybrid or in the cloud.
July 13, 2017
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Along with Scala, Lightbend's claim to fame is a "reactive" application development platform for building distributed applications. The platform leverages micro-services along with "fast data" on a message-driven run time. The approach is designed to help scale enterprise applications on cloud infrastructure.
July 13, 2017
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IBM, Intel and others are pumping $15 million into Lightbend, the company behind the Scala programming language developers are using to build artificial intelligence applications that draw on real-time data. The funding, led by IBM, builds on a partnership it announced with the startup last month to advance the development of AI in the enterprise.
July 12, 2017
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The partnership will result in the development of enterprise-grade cognitive applications on-premise and in the cloud.
July 05, 2017
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The fundamental building block of Akka actor systems is an actor. In a way, actors are analogous to Lego or Minecraft blocks: With the simple building blocks of Lego and Minecraft, it is possible to craft magnificent structures. In this article, Hugh McKee, developer advocate at Lightbend tells you everything you need to know about cluster aware actors.
June 30, 2017
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IBM and Lightbend join forces to help bring microservices to IBM's WebSphere platform, with new Scala- and Java-based tools for cognitive application development.
June 29, 2017
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The partnership will result in the development of enterprise-grade cognitive applications on-premise and in the cloud.
June 29, 2017
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Lightbend and IBM are teaming up to develop a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers building and deploying AI and cognitive applications in on-premises and cloud environments, the two companies announced today. As part of the move, IBM is taking a "major" equity stake in Lightbend, undisclosed at press time.
June 29, 2017
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Big news from IBM and Lightbend this week: these two joined forces together to build a brand new toolchain for AI development for Java and Scala developers.
June 29, 2017
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IBM Corp. announced a collaboration today with Lightbend Inc. in a bid to fire up the creation of artificial intelligence applications in large enterprises.
June 29, 2017
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IBM has announced they will make a strategic investment in reactive pioneer and Scala language custodian, Lightbend. The two companies will collaborate on a new platform for cognitive development.
June 29, 2017
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IBM is tackling artificial intelligence in its latest endeavor. The company announced a partnership with the reactive application development provider Lightbend to advance the development of artificial intelligence and cognitive solutions.
June 28, 2017
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today is announcing a collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, the provider of the world's leading Reactive Application Development Platform, to help advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive solutions in the enterprise. The resulting joint solutions will be designed to provide a complete toolchain for Java and Scala developers to easily build and deploy AI and cognitive applications in both on-premise and cloud environments.
June 22, 2017
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In this abstract of Jonas Bonér's full article, we will look at microservices, not as a tool to scale the organization, development and release process (even though it's one of the main reasons for adopting microservices), but from an architecture and design perspective, and put it in its true context: distributed systems.
April 18, 2017
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Lightbend today announced its partnership with HPE Security Fortify to develop breakthrough static analysis security testing capabilities for the Scala programming language.
February 21, 2017
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When it comes to the rush to microservices, Java developers may feel a bit short. Some tools, such as Spring Boot, can help. Spring Boot adds a microservices framework on top of the enterprise Java ecosystem, making it a viable option for those building out individual microservices. But what about building a fleet of microservices to deploy at scale? Here, a new set of issues arise...
February 08, 2017
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Lightbend today announced the acquisition of OpsClarity, an advanced monitoring solution specifically designed for end-to-end visibility into the application infrastructure and data pipeline for streaming applications. The addition of OpsClarity’s advanced monitoring capabilities to the Reactive Platform comes just nine months after Lightbend acquired Reactive consulting firm BoldRadius.
January 12, 2017
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Big data can be a big headache, unless you know how to manage it at scale. Credit Karma engineering manager, Dustin Lyons, spoke with TechRepublic about how the fintech giant handles its data.
December 02, 2016
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Lightbend's Scala Team Lead, Adriaan Moors, is interviewed by ADTMag's John K Waters on what's happening with Scala 2.12.
October 18, 2016
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James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, once said that if somebody had shown him Martin Odersky’s Programming in Scala book back in 2003, he would have probably never created Groovy. Scala’s star is still shining bright — we invited Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala, to talk about the impending 2.12 version, the current state of this programming language and the technical innovations that await us.
October 11, 2016
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Reactive microservices, data center scale operating system (DCOS), and staging reactive data pipelines were the highlighted topics at the Reactive Summit 2016 Conference held this week.
September 26, 2016
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Lightbend Fast Data Platform is the first comprehensive application platform that addresses the challenges of streaming systems head on.
September 26, 2016
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Consider Java VMs the original application 'containers,' now facing stiff competition from a new generation of containers.
September 23, 2016
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New survey of more than 2,100 JVM developers finds at least half now embrace microservices to boost their speed and agility.
September 20, 2016
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Voxxed.com covers Lightbend's Enterprise Development Trends 2016 survey.
September 19, 2016
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The Java EE app server may be dying, but a new Lightbend survey sheds light on where developers are placing their bets...
September 18, 2016
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Editors at thenewstack.io analyze data from Lightbend and others to understand more about enterprise developement trends.
September 16, 2016
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Lightbend (a company many remember as Typesafe), the firm behind the Reactive Platform that includes the Akka, Play and Lagom Frameworks as well as the Scala programming language, has announced the results of a new survey of 2,151 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) developers and IT professionals.
September 15, 2016
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The biggest takeaway from Lightbend’s survey of more than 2,100 JVM developers across large, medium and small-sized enterprises was that application containers are “democratizing infrastructure,” and “challenging the old guard of Java EE app servers.
September 15, 2016
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Scala developers are outpacing Java developers when it comes to microservices adoption, they're embracing cloud-native more strongly, and devs from both camps think containers have enormous potential to disrupt the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) landscape...
September 14, 2016
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Findings show “Fast Data” and Cloud as major catalysts replacing legacy Java EE application servers with microservices and containers.
August 25, 2016
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Early bird registration closes August 31 for our leading event focused on Reactive Systems, Microservices, and Fast Data pipelines...
August 24, 2016
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In a follow up to the recent InfoQ article on the Scala Center with Martin Odersky and Heather Miller, Adriaan Moors, Scala tech lead at Lightbend, speaks to InfoQ about Lightbend's involvement with the Scala Center.
August 24, 2016
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Lightbend partner Mesosphere announces support for state in container apps via the DataStax–Confluent–Lightbend stack.
August 22, 2016
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In the August Executive Committee Meeting of the Java Community Process, Anil Gaur, Oracle Group Vice Presidentm delivered a presentation on Oracle's Java EE strategy. According to the Meeting Minutes, Gaur "noted that enterprise programming styles are changing -- more and more applications are distributed in nature and get deployed in cloud environments. Rather than traditional appservers that typically run multiple applications, apps are now distributed and deployed in the Cloud via modular runtimes dedicated to a single application or service."
August 09, 2016
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eWeek's Darryl Taft reviews 5 technologies enterprises need to successfully build an IoT application–including Akka for handling resilience against failures and elastic scalability...
August 03, 2016
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If it’s not already, Scala deserves a place at or near the top of your to-learn list — something I saw definitive evidence of last fall when I was coming off a post-doc position and considering leaving academia for the tech industry.
August 03, 2016
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After a relatively quiet 2015, father of Scala Martin Odersky announced during his May 9, 2016 keynote address at Scala Days New York, that development is “heating up” for Scala this year. Odersky, who is currently programming research group professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and chairman and co-founder of Lightbend, outlined “what has recently happened or will happen very soon”...
August 01, 2016
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Lightbend and Mesosphere today announced that the Lightbend Reactive Platform is now fully integrated with both Mesosphere Enterprise DC/OS (Datacenter Operating System) and the open source DC/OS distribution.
August 01, 2016
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Data science success depends on providing data scientists with an open and engaging environment that fosters collaboration. In this video, listen as IBM data science evangelist James Kobielus talks with Dean Wampler, a fast data product architect with the office of the CTO at Lightbend, about how data scientists can access the open functionality and expertise that are central to their work.
July 26, 2016
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In practice, even things like the fussy home WiFi router, possibly the most loathed home computing device ever invented, keep giving us the Internet of Broken, Disconnected Things. That’s one reason I find eero, a San Francisco startup, so interesting...
June 07, 2016
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Today at Spark Summit, Lightbend announced that it is working with IBM to help enterprises operationalize big data across their application infrastructure.
June 06, 2016
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Lightbend, a pioneer in Reactive Systems, is building out its tools to support enterprises with cloud-first business models built on microservices.
May 26, 2016
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Today Lightbend announced it has closed a $20 million Series C funding round led by Intel Capital. Blue Cloud Ventures also joined Intel Capital as a new investor, with full participation from previous investors Bain Capital Ventures, Polytech Ecosystem Ventures and Shasta Ventures. Vibhor Rastogi, Director for Enterprise Software at Intel Capital, will join Lightbend’s board of directors.
April 26, 2016
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Zalando's "Radical Agility" powered by Lightbend technologies is becoming a mainstream way for businesses to scale.
April 25, 2016
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Meet Lagom, Lightbend’s (formerly Typesafe) new open source framework for architecting microservices in Java. On the 10th of March, Lightbend released the first MVP version of Lagom which is the current version at the time of writing. Although there is currently only a Java API, Scala enthusiasts should not fret because a Scala API is a main priority and well on its way.
April 15, 2016
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Today Lightbend announced that it has agreed to purchase Reactive consulting firm BoldRadius Solutions and its more than 20 employees, and expects to finalize the acquisition in the coming weeks.
March 28, 2016
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Today Lightbend announced that it has been selected by IBM to lead Big Data University's core curriculum in the areas of Scala, Reactive Programming and Apache Spark.
March 23, 2016
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Today Lightbend announced the publication of an exclusive O’Reilly report on Reactive Microservices Architecture (download the full report). Authored by Akka creator and Lightbend CTO and Co-Founder Jonas Bonér, the report explores microservices architectures based on Reactive Principles for building isolated services that are scalable, resilient to failure, and optimized to integrate with other microservices in production.
March 21, 2016
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Last week, the Scala Center was created as a not-for-profit foundation, along with a list of financial backers, to improve the ongoing development of Scala and provide training courses based around the Scala language.
March 15, 2016
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Today we announced that Lightbend co-founder and creator of Scala, Martin Odersky, will deliver the opening keynote address on Monday, May 9 in New York City, followed by Heather Miller, Director of the new Scala Center at EPFL, on May 10th. Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark, delivers the closing keynote on Wednesday, May 11.
March 14, 2016
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Lightbend today announced additional investment in the growth and innovation of the Scala programming language by supporting the launch of a new foundation, the Scala Center, as one of the original founding members.
March 10, 2016
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A wise person once said time is a device invented to keep everything from happening at once. Jonas Bonér explains how the database world has abused time from the beginning...
March 09, 2016
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In a conversation with InfoQ, Lightbend co-founder and CTO Jonas Bonér shared his view on Lagom.
March 02, 2016
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Java is Dead is Dead. It was fashionable for a while to comment on the idea Java has legs with a curt “oh no Java the language is dead but the JVM is decent”. The cool kids like Twitter were using Scala. But Java the language shows consistent ongoing strength. For data, Stephen just dropped our regular programming language rankings and Java is still very much a thing.
February 24, 2016
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Today, Lightbend announced a collaboration with Intel to bring low-latency and high availability to Big Data streaming pipelines running on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). As "Fast Data" becomes a requirement for every enterprise seeking to make use of its data assets for analytics and real-time decision making, Intel is utilizing Akka and the Reactive Streams specification from Lightbend to accelerate innovations in data streaming.
February 23, 2016
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Jonas Bonér is a Java programming pioneer, perhaps best known as the author of Akka, a toolkit and runtime for distributed, resilient applications on the JVM. He's also the CTO and co-founder of Lightbend (formerly Typesafe) that he started with Scala creator Martin Odersky in 2011. He knows a lot about building scale-out applications. Lightbend just announced a new framework called Lagom that is designed for Java developers building microservices.
February 23, 2016
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Two characteristics to consider when building a microservices-based architecture.
February 23, 2016
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Lightbend (formerly known as Typesafe) today unveiled a new framework for Java developers creating microservices-based applications. Dubbed Lagom, the open source framework was built with technologies from the company's Reactive Platform, including the Play Web framework, the Akka message-driven runtime, and the ConductR deployment orchestrator. It was designed, the company said, to "reduce the risk and accelerate the transition to a microservices architecture for traditional Java enterprises."
February 23, 2016
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There are few trickier tasks in business -- any business -- than changing a company's name. There are branding issues, legal complications, marketing considerations. Just ask the folks at Lightbend, formerly Typesafe, who have been going through the process for months, and today announced its new moniker.
February 23, 2016
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Lightbend's Lagom framework helps Java developers create and manage microservices architectures.
February 23, 2016
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JAXenter covers Lightbend and Lagom launch.
February 23, 2016
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Hold onto your hats Scala people – Typesafe is no more. Not because it’s been crushed in a horrific Unicorn stampede or anything like that – there’s just been a name change and rebrand. As of today, the people who brought you Akka and the Play framework now go as ‘Lightbend’.
February 23, 2016
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Typesafe changed its name today to Lightbend and announced Lagom, an open source Microservices framework designed to simplify and accelerate application infrastructure modernization. The first MVP of Lagom for Java will be available through GitHub in early March 2016.
February 17, 2016
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Jonas Bonér shares his predictions on what lies ahead for enterprise developers in 2016 with John Waters of Application Development Trends.
December 18, 2015
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A new Typesafe survey of more than 3,000 indicates aggressive use of microservices and fast data among adopters of Reactive systems.
December 17, 2015
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Typesafe Survey of More Than 3,000 Respondents Shows Aggressive Use of Microservices and Fast Data Among Reactive Movement's Adopters
November 10, 2015
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Typesafe Monitoring Now Available With Reactive Platform Subscription; New Functionality Brings Deep Insight Into Actor Metrics Within Akka-Based Applications
October 29, 2015
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Architecture and Design Review, On-Site Training and 24/7 Production SLAs by the Scala Language Experts Accelerates Spark Adoption for Enterprise Developers
October 12, 2015
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IoT is currently a Babel of disparate "standards," but a new initiative from Samsung promises to change that.
October 12, 2015
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The release of the Trusted Analytics Platform (TAP) includes some very valuable and established open source projects. Gearpump is a project that adds a key ingestion capability to TAP, capable of handling a variety of use cases that either involve complicated workflows or low latency processing of many types of ingestion streams that need to be fault tolerant.
September 23, 2015
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Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive Platform, today announced that it has partnered with DataStax, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra™ to the enterprise, to work with joint customers developing Reactive applications designed to leverage data in motion. Mobile, Web and Internet of Things (IoT) systems increasingly operate on data in near real-time. As these systems embrace "data in motion," traditional batch architectures are being re-imagined as pure stream-based architectures. Specifications such as Reactive Streams, and stream processing libraries such as Akka Streams and Spark Streaming, provide the standards and plumbing necessary to implement such systems effectively...
September 18, 2015
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Dean Wampler explains one of the most noteworthy trends for Big Data developers today: the growing importance of speed and flexibility for data pipelines in the enterprise.
September 09, 2015
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Published originally on TechRepublic
Back in the olden days of 2014, "big" used to be enough for big data. Just a year later, however, data also has to be fast. Really, really fast. "Big data," of course, has never truly been a matter of data volumes. At least, not exclusively. It has also fixated on data velocity (and variety), as Gartner's 3 V's popularized. But knowing that data needs real-time processing and actually doing it are two very different things. To better understand the industry shift toward fast, stream-based data processing, I reached out to Kevin Webber, developer advocate for Typesafe. Last year, his team led the rollout of Walmart Canada's new e-commerce platform built on a Scala/Akka/Play stack.
September 09, 2015
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Originally published by Typesafe on Marketwired.com.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 8, 2015) - Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced a new white paper that explores the evolution of big data to "fast data" and how modern streaming architectures are transforming Reactive applications.
August 28, 2015
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For the past 70 years, digital computers have followed the principles of a model developed by Jon von Neumann in 1945. The model effectively defines how a stored computer program, comprising a set of instructions, runs. Most of the world’s computers, from the very first – the 1948 Manchester Baby – to the latest generation of mobile devices, x86 desktops and servers, use this model. Programs, including the operating system, are run as a series of machine instructions, which are fetched and then run one step at a time. It is a model used in computer languages such as C and Java and operating systems such as Unix and Windows. The von Neumann model has served the industry well – but its limitations are starting to show. "Twenty years ago, someone did not develop a website to have millions of customers in parallel," says Patrick Di Loreto, betting company William Hill’s research and development engineering lead.
August 25, 2015
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 20, 2015) - Mesosphere, creators of the Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) for managing cloud and datacenter resources at scale, today announced Mesosphere Infinity, the first real-time enterprise-ready open source offering that lets companies capture the enormous new business opportunities created by the rise of ubiquitous data, including fraud and anomaly detection, real-time personalization, and Internet of Things (IoT) applications, such as connected consumer devices and supply chain optimization. Learn more at https://mesosphere.com/infinity.
July 09, 2015
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Innovation is flourishing in real-time big data technologies, but that could also create problems, says the Reactive movements Jonas Bonér.
Big data means big competition.
As vendors at every layer of the "stack" vie for their place in the evolving big data architecture, one of the busiest battlegrounds so far may be the back-end data movement and logic between systems. For many, the "big" in big data is less about overall volume of data and much more about the need for speed in shuffling data around in real time.
June 16, 2015
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Typesafe today announced it is offering commercial support for a new distribution of Apache Spark designed to run on the Mesosphere Datacenter Operating System (DCOS). With Spark on DCOS and enterprise-grade support options from Typesafe, it has never been easier to run Spark on any modern version of Linux (CentOS, CoreOS, Red Hat and Ubuntu), on any major cloud (AWS, GCE, Azure, Digital Ocean), private datacenter or hybrid cloud.
June 16, 2015
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Looking to make it much simpler to deploy Apache Spark in-memory computing clusters in production environments, Mesosphere today announced a partnership with Typesafe to provide support for an instance of Spark that can be deployed on top of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
June 10, 2015
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For enterprises creating applications and microservices connected to streaming data sources, speed and reliability of data movement is critical. Akka Streams and Slick 3.0 bring the best of Reactive systems to streaming architectures (responsive, resilient, elastic and message driven), and today both have been released for general availability as part of the Typesafe Reactive Platform.
June 10, 2015
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Akka creator Jonas Bonér sat down with DZone to give our readers a download on the general availability of Akka Streams, and the features and functionality that he believes are going to be most exciting to developers creating applications that participate in streaming architectures.
June 02, 2015
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The first stable drop from Reactive Streams has landed, with version 1.0.0 available for immediate use. All the time spent discussing, debating, programming and testing has led to an asynchronous stream solution for “back pressure”.
June 01, 2015
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On the heels of the release of Reactive Streams 1.0.0, I decided to grab a couple of engineers — Ben Christensen of RxJava and Netflix fame, Stephane Maldini of Pivotal’s Project Reactor and the inimitable Dr. Roland Kuhn of the Akka Project at Typesafe — that have been engaged in the project, to ask them a couple of quick questions about Reactive Streams, their involvement, and what the future has in store for Reactive Streams.
June 01, 2015
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After more than a year on the drawing board, Reactive Streams has released version 1.0 of their API for several different platforms, Java among them.
May 19, 2015
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Even mid-market companies need sophisticated tools to speed development and scale. Matt Asay explains.
May 19, 2015
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Slick, Typesafe's database query and access library for Scala, received a major overhaul in the just released version 3.0. Also dubbed "Reactive Slick", it introduces a new API to compose and run database queries in a reactive way.
May 11, 2015
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Reactive Streams 1.0.0 has reached its objective of defining a common standard for asynchronous streaming processes on the JVM, for flexible and reactive data processing. Since February 2014, representatives from Typesafe, Red Hat, Netflix, Pivotal, Oracle, Twitter and spray.io have been collaborating in various work groups to define a standard for asynchronous data streaming on the JVM. Not an easy task, considering what it was that Reactive Streams was aiming for: to “provide a standard for asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure.”
May 08, 2015
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Typesafe have been tireless in their quest to reactively-label all the things – but this week,thanks to the GA availability of the final version of Reactive Streams 1.0 for the JVM, they’ve had to do very little to push the buzzword. Even a self-professed C# fanboy on Hacker News was moved to comment that “the Java community has done something really amazing” with this project.
April 23, 2015
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Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced that Akka has been honored by JAX readers as the "Most Innovative Open Source Tech in 2015."
March 13, 2015
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Optimized for Typesafe Reactive Platform, New System Gives Operators a Convenient, Predictable Way of Managing Distributed Application Clusters
March 13, 2015
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The new tool ConductR makes it easier to manage high-scalability applications.
February 27, 2015
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Premier Global Event for Scala to Be Held March 16-18, 2015 at Fort Mason; Four of Six Classes Now Sold Out; Learn the Future of the Typesafe Reactive Platform
January 27, 2015
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A couple of months ago, Typesafe put out a survey on Apache Spark adoption in the developer community. The idea for the survey came from some interesting results of a previous survey Typesafe released last September on Java 8.
January 27, 2015
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A new survey from startups Databricks and Typesafe revealed some interesting insights into how software developers are using the Apache Spark data-processing framework. Spark is an open source project that has attracted a lot of attention — and a lot of investment — over the past couple years as a faster, easier alternative to MapReduce for processing big data.
January 27, 2015
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Hadoop is hot. But its kissing cousin Spark is even hotter.
Indeed, Spark is hot like Apache Hadoop was half a decade ago. Spawned at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab, Spark is a fast data processing engine that works in the Hadoop ecosystem, replacing MapReduce. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and iterative algorithms, like those commonly found in machine learning and graph processing.
January 27, 2015
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Reactive programming company Typesafe today released a survey that confirms the high adoption rate of Apache Spark, an open source Big Data processing framework that improves traditional Hadoop-based analytics.
January 27, 2015
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Based on Survey of More Than 2,100 Respondents, 13% Already Using Spark in Production, 20% Planning to Use in 2015, and 31% "Evaluating"
January 15, 2015
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December 29, 2014
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Scott Fulton, The New Stack, interviews Typesafe Co-founder and CTO, Jonas Bonér about Akka, the Reactive Manifesto and how to handle the scale-out problem.
December 24, 2014
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Kathryn Murphy, senior vice president of Apps and Platform at Tomax, discusses how retailers are turning to reactive programming to address new requirements in scale and concurrency.
December 19, 2014
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Typesafe co-founder and CTO, Jonas Bonér, shares the top trends in reactive programming for 2015.
December 08, 2014
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"Typesafe recently released a report based on their survey findings of over 3000 Java developers, focusing on the adoption of Java 8 as well as upcoming developer technology trends. From the survey results, the Java 8 adoption rate overall looks strong, particularly since version 8 had been available for only six months when the survey was taken back in September 2014. This is significant as Oracle’s Java 7 support will potentially end as early as April 2015."
December 03, 2014
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Typesafe released a new survey today on Apache Spark, a "fast and general engine for large-scale data processing." After finding surprising results about Apache Spark from their Java 8 survey released in September, they have decided to more closely look at trends surrounding the Spark engine.
November 07, 2014
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The award ceremony for the Swiss ICT Award took place yesterday in Lucerne. EPFL spin-off iRewind won in the Newcomer category. Martin Odersky, Professor at EPFL and co-founder of the start-up Typesafe was honoured with a Special Award.
October 31, 2014
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In a recent article on Medium, TypeSafe's Kevin Webber argues that reactive programming "isn’t just another trend but rather the paradigm for modern software developers to learn" since it helps them to build systems that are responsive, resilient, and scalable. He also suggests that actor-based concurrency is the most convenient foundations for a reactive system.
October 29, 2014
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New Certification Brings Scala, Akka and Play Framework to Microsoft Azure, as Well as Windows Dev Center
October 24, 2014
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Typesafe’s latest survey on Java 8 explains the success of lambdas and what it means for Scala.
October 22, 2014
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Java doesn't look like surrendering its lead with developers anytime soon, as adoption Java 8 is six months ahead of schedule.
October 20, 2014
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Matt Asay spoke with Typesafe CTO and Akka creator Jonas Bonér about recent Java 8 survey.
October 20, 2014
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Typesafe ran a survey of Java developers in February, along with a follow-up in September - you might have seen that one on DZone- and together they present an interesting look at the uptake of Java 8 and other industry trends.
October 20, 2014
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Taking the opportunity offered by the update to the Reactive Manifesto, InfoQ asked Jonas Bonér, Typesafe CTO and original author of the first Reactive Manifesto, some questions about his vision of “Reactive” applications. Jonas offered his thoughts about both desirable features of reactive applications and what is not reactive programming.
October 20, 2014
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Typesafe Survey Shows Nearly Two Thirds of Java Developers Already Migrated to Java 8 or Committed to Within Next Year; Plus Adoption Trends Around Containers, Big Data, IoT
October 09, 2014
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Tiho Bajic, vice president of technology at Nitro, shares three advantages to be gained from being proactive about reactive application engineering.
October 09, 2014
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Hortonworks Data Platform Users to Benefit From Typesafe's Unrivaled Scala Training Expertise, Plus an Activator Template and Mini Cluster for New Users Sandboxing Spark Jobs
September 19, 2014
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Matt Asay interviews Jonas Bonér about Reactive's traction on the eve of publishing version 2.0 of the Reactive Manifesto.
September 16, 2014
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Dice magazine inerviews Typesafe's Jamie Allen about top interview questions for Scala devs.
September 05, 2014
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The Scala road map has three upgrades planned, with a simpler, more modular language set as the end goal. InfoWorld Editor-at-Large Paul Krill recently talked with Odersky about what's ahead for Scala.
August 20, 2014
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August 19, 2014
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Kevin Webber covers the fundamentals of Reactive Programming in his new Medium blog:
... To understand Reactive?—?both the programming paradigm and the motivation behind it?—?it helps to understand the challenges that are faced by developers and companies today compared to the challenges faced only a decade ago.
August 14, 2014
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Typesafe Activator Gives JVM Application Developers the Power of Purchasing Market Leading APM Tools, on the Fly
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Aug 14, 2014) - Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced that Typesafe Activator now offers enhanced functionality that provides enterprise application developers with instant access to the power of real-time application performance monitoring (APM) tools from market leaders AppDynamics and New Relic.
August 13, 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--( Aug 13, 2014) - Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive Platform, today announced that it has been included as a sample vendor in three of Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle reports, including "Hype Cycle for Application Development, 2014 [1]," "Hype Cycle for Application Architecture, 2014 [2]," and "Hype Cycle for In-Memory Computing, 2014 [3]." Akka -- part of the Typesafe Reactive Framework -- was also mentioned in a fourth Gartner report, "Hype Cycle for Web Computing, 2014 [4]."
August 07, 2014
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RebelLabs published an interview with Scala tech lead, Adriaan Moors.
July 31, 2014
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Companies Ink Go-to-Market Agreement After Successful Production Engagements at Top Global Brands
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and PARIS, FRANCE--(Jul 31, 2014) - Atos, an international information technology services company, and Typesafe, the San Francisco-based provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind the Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced a strategic partnership that will align sales, marketing and delivery strategy between the two companies. Atos -- one of Europe's largest systems integrators, with more than 84,000 employees -- will be named a Strategic Global System Integrator for large-scale applications built on the Typesafe platform. Through its partnership with one of Europe's largest and most respected systems integrators, Typesafe will increase its global reach.
July 29, 2014
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"As announced in the recent Scala roadmap (http://scala-lang.org/news/2.12-roadmap), the Scala language will only run on Java 8 and later from Scala version 2.12 and onwards. InfoQ caught up with Adriaan Moors (Scala tech lead at Typesafe) and Jason Zaugg (Typesafe engineer) to hear more about this change and how Scala will be making use of Java 8's lambdas implementation."
July 23, 2014
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--( July 23, 2014) - Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced that Scala has been selected as one of the "10 Kick-Ass Technologies Modern Developers Love" in an independent study conducted by RebelLabs, the research and content think tank of ZeroTurnaround.
July 15, 2014
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This month marked the five-year anniversary of Akka, open-source run-time toolkit for concurrency and scalability on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). John Water's, Application Development Trends, interviews Jonas Bonér to learn more.
July 10, 2014
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Jonas Bonér came up with a way to handle heavy, bursty information flows from billions of connected devices.
July 10, 2014
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Akka Raised the Standard for Handling Scale and Failure on the JVM; Today Its Developer Community Continues to Grow Across Data Streaming and Internet of Things Use Cases
July 07, 2014
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Spark has emerged as the next-generation platform for writing Big Data applications for Hadoop and Mesos clusters.
July 03, 2014
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Reactive programming is a very hot topic: libraries for building reactive systems are mushrooming on many platforms and languages. Initiatives like the Reactive Manifesto are promoting the idea, and with Reactive Streams there are even efforts to provide interoperability between reactive libraries. What does it mean to be reactive? InfoQ brought together three proponents of reactive programming in a virtual panel to find out and learn more about the individual projects.
June 10, 2014
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The New York Times needed to modernize the infrastructure supporting its growing syndication service, so it turned to reactive programming darlings Scala, Play, and Akka.
June 09, 2014
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Akka, Play, Scala and Typesafe Platform see growth in media industry as modern newsroom and reader traffic realities shake up old world application infrastructures
June 05, 2014
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Paul Rubens outlines the six programming langauges developers should learn to increase their employability. Scala comes in at number 3!
June 03, 2014
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Sold Out Conference in Berlin Attracts Developers and CTOs From Around the World to Promote Innovation and Advancement on the JVM
May 08, 2014
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Gilt's daily traffic spikes were a problem, but it found a solution: Scala.
May 07, 2014
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Demand Surges for Play and Akka Across e-Commerce, POS and In-Store Use Cases to Meet Extreme Web Traffic Volatility and Scale
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 7, 2014) - Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced additional traction in the retail industry with customers Gilt, Tomax and Walmart.
May 06, 2014
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"Typesafe has recently announced the release of Scala 2.11 under the standard 3-clause BSD license. This is a major release which includes improvements in scalac, the REPL, packaging/modularization, macros, the Collections library, and various bug fixes. Scala 2.11 targets Java 6, with only limited, experimental support for Java 8. Scala 2.11 is not binary compatible with the 2.10 series, but code that compiles on 2.10 without deprecation warnings should compile on 2.11."
April 28, 2014
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"Jonas, creator of the Akka project and CTO of Typesafe, believes that by using a share nothing architecture and building on an event-driven foundation we can write really scalable systems."
April 21, 2014
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"Typesafe has announced the early preview of Akka Streams, an open source implementation of the Reactive Streams draft specification using an Actor-based implementation."
April 17, 2014
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Implemented on the Draft Proposal Reactive Streams Specification, Akka Streams Clears Path for Developers to Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Data Streaming.
April 17, 2014
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Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced the release of Akka Streams, the first implementation of the new Reactive Streams specification.
April 17, 2014
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Data is increasingly streamed, and now there's a standards body to coordinate this kind reactive streaming. Read Matt Asay's interview with Typesafe's Viktor Klang, Chief Architect at Typesafe and one of the lead organizers of reactivestreams.org, about the latest initiative to handle asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure on the JVM.
April 17, 2014
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Reactive streams is a new initiative to standardize the asynchronous stream processing on the Java Virtual Machine. In this article, Claudia Fröhlingsdorf discusses the goal of the consortium and the vairious parties involved.
April 10, 2014
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Typesafe Co-founder and CTO, Jonas Boner, on functional programming and Java 8.
April 05, 2014
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Functional programming has attracted a lot of interest, but also a lot of confusion. Typesafe's Viktor Klang explains seven key concepts in the field.
April 04, 2014
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Some have wondered whether the recent release of Java 8 could be bad news for Scala, which gained fans with its functional programming capabilities on the Java Virtual Machine.
April 04, 2014
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Gain advice from a developer who helped rebuild Walmart.ca with Scala and Play.
April 02, 2014
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Typesafe partner, AppDynamics, announces 2014 Spring Release, featuring Scala, Akka and Play Framework support.
March 31, 2014
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Reactive software company puts new spin on Flappy Bird, shifts focus to mobile gaming
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(April 1, 2014) - Typesafe, provider of the world's leading Reactive Platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced Dong Nguyen as VP of Game Innovation. Nguyen brings with him more than 5 years of industry experience building useless and free-to-play mobile games, and has an extensive history of mysteriously disappearing while profiting from frustratingly addictive time suckers.
March 18, 2014
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Paul Krill covers Oracle's long-anticipated update includes addition of lambda expressions and shift to functional programming language.
March 17, 2014
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There is a real pent-up interest in the new version of Java, which is released tomorrow. Over half of all developers intend to upgrade within a year, according to a new survey. It's a sensationally quick upgrade pace, sp we've interviewed Chief Architect at Typesafe, Viktor Klang to learn more.
March 14, 2014
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In this article, Mike O’Hara, in conversation with Jonas Bonér, Greg Young, Martin Thompson and Jan Machá?ek – investigates the core principles behind the recently published The Reactive Manifesto, and its relevance to system design in today’s Financial Markets.
March 12, 2014
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John Waters, Application Development Trends, covers Typesafe's recent Java 8 survey and interviews VP of Engineering, Derek Henninger.
March 11, 2014
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Rotem Hermon, former Chief Architect for serendip.me, writes about the architecture and scaling considerations behind making a startup music service.
March 04, 2014
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Christina Mulligan from SD Times writes about Typesafe's Java 8 survey.
March 04, 2014
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Lucy Carey, JAXenter, covers recent Typesafe survey.
March 03, 2014
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Since it went live last summer, thousands of people have signed up to adhere to the standards of the Reactive Manifesto - a blueprint for writing Reactive Applications. In this interview, Typesafe co-founder and CTO Jonas Bonér shares why the Manifesto is so important for addressing contemporary development issues, and just how ready the Java ecosystem is for a Reactive future.
March 03, 2014
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Press Release: Based on Survey of More Than 2,800 Java Developers, 65 Percent Already Committed to Java 8 Upgrade, 83 Percent Cite Lambdas as Key Interest.
March 03, 2014
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Paul Krill writes about Typesafe's Java 8 survey results and his interview with co-founder and CTO, Jonas Bonér.
February 20, 2014
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Matt Asay interviews Typesafe co-founder and Scala creator, Martin Odersky, about the upcoming release of Java 8 and to get his take on where things stand between two languages that share a love for the Java Virtual Machine.
January 24, 2014
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Jonas Bonér, Typesafe co-founder and CTO, is interviewed at eclipseCON about Reactive applications.
January 22, 2014
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Scala turns 10!
January 22, 2014
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Patrik Nordwall, Senior Software Engineer at Typesafe, writes about the large Akka Cluster on Google Compute Engine.
January 21, 2014
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Slick 2.0 Introduces Functional Relational Mapping to the JVM.
January 20, 2014
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Andrey Redko shares how SBT (simple build tool) can benefit Java developers.
January 16, 2014
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Francesco Cesarini, founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions, interviews Typesafe's Viktor Klang about the Reactive Manifesto.
January 15, 2014
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InfoWorld picks the best hardware, software, development tools and cloud services of the year, and Scala makes the cut!
December 17, 2013
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Werner Schuster, InfoQ, interviews Typesafe's Dean Wampler at GotoCon Aarhus about Scalding, NoSQL, Scala, Functional Programming and Big Data.
December 06, 2013
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Derek Henninger, vice president of engineering at Typesafe, discusses how we are continuing to work with the JetBrains team to improve their support of Scala.
December 06, 2013
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Salil Deshpande, Managing Director with Bain Capital Ventures, lists reactive applications in his top three predictions for Software Infrastructure in 2014.
December 05, 2013
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Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist at O'Reilly Media, discusses Scala's growing popularity in the field of Big Data.
December 03, 2013
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In this 17-minute interview, Martin discusses why the Reactive Manifesto is relevant, the fundamentals of Reactive systems, and where he sees the future of Reactive systems going.
November 14, 2013
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In Rey Bango's interview with Eric Bowman, VP Architecture at Gilt Groupe, they discuss the background behind Gilt Groupe and the technology decisions that keep the service running smoothly.
October 23, 2013
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John K. Waters, Application Development Trends, interviews Typesafe CTO and co-founder, Jonas Bonér, on recent Spray.io acquisition and Reactive applications.
October 16, 2013
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Spray.io Will Provide a Solid and Supported Base for Web Applications and RESTful Services, Increasing Flexibility and Library Options for Typesafe Customers
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2013) - Typesafe, provider of the world's first Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka and Scala, today announced the acquisition of Spray.io to provide deeper support for the Spray toolkit. Spray, which is built on Akka and Scala, is one of the best performing REST/HTTP libraries in the Java ecosystem and is quickly becoming the de facto standard for writing REST services in Scala. Today's announcement enhances Typesafe's current offering and reinforces the company's commitment of providing developers and customers with the most robust platform for building Reactive applications with Java and Scala.
October 02, 2013
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InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul Krill met with Typesafe Senior Software Engineer Josh Suereth at the recent JavaOne technical conference in San Francisco to talk about reactive programming. Suereth also commented on the importance of Lambdas in the upcoming Java Standard Edition 8 release.
September 26, 2013
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RedMonk's James Governor discusses how the future of business is reactive...
September 23, 2013
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Sep 23, 2013) - Typesafe, provider of the world's first Reactive platform and the company behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala, today announced the general availability of Typesafe Activator 1.0, a browser-based tool that helps developers get started building Reactive applications with reusable templates and in-context tutorials. The 1.0 release of Typesafe Activator features integration with the Typesafe Console and 28 production-ready templates, including Play Framework with MongoDB for Reactive NoSQL persistence, Akka and Spray for Actor-based REST servers, Scala and Hadoop for scalable Big Data, and many others.
April 22, 2013
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All Star Speaking Lineup Includes Sessions by EPFL, Barclays, Comcast LinkedIn, eBay and More
March 13, 2013
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Registration, Call for Papers Now Open and Sponsorship Slots Now Open
February 27, 2013
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Former Director of R&D for VMware's Development Tools to Drive Innovation for Typesafe's Products and Projects
February 13, 2013
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Ticketfly builds powerful reserved seating engine with Scala and Akka
February 12, 2013
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Today we’re eager to share a new case study from Lucidchart!
February 12, 2013
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Developer Contest Winners Announced!
January 28, 2013
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The fantastic engineering folks at Klout wrote a great blog post last Friday on the usage of Iteratees in Play Framework calculating social influence of users across several social networks.
December 26, 2012
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We are pleased to announce the availability of Akka 2.1.0 ‘Mingus.’ This is the next step of Akka’s evolution, following the major transformation that was 2.0—you are invited to look back at the announcement from March 6, 2012. The 2.0 release laid the groundwork, with a completely message-based internal structure that enables your actor-based services to interact regardless of where they are hosted. As a result, you can scale up and out by configuration at deployment time. Today’s release adds cluster support, forming a powerful substrate on which elastic cloud-based applications are built.
December 17, 2012
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Typesafe is very proud to have Rod Johnson on our board of directors but what really gets us excited is when he talks about his use of Scala.
November 16, 2012
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We have released an update to the Akka middleware, which fixes several bugs and is binary compatible with previous releases in the 2.0.x series. The most notable changes are:
November 12, 2012
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The first release candidate of Akka 2.1 was released last week! Now is a great time to take it for a spin and give feedback before 2.1.0 goes final!
October 30, 2012
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We are excited to announce the Scala Worksheet V0.1.2 for the Scala IDE V2.1-M2.
September 30, 2012
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Typesafe Appoints Rod Johnson to Board of Directors as Company Growth Accelerates
September 27, 2012
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Typesafe Unveils Scala1 Mobile App for JavaOne
August 22, 2012
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Typesafe Closes $14 Million Series B Funding Round
August 08, 2012
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Typesafe Announces Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit
June 25, 2012
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Juniper Networks Selects Typesafe Stack
June 20, 2012
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Typesafe Appoints Mark Brewer as Chief Executive Officer
April 18, 2012
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Typesafe Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Industry Analyst Firm
April 17, 2012
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Typesafe Sponsors Sold-Out Scala Days in London
March 13, 2012
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Introducing Typesafe Stack 2.0 (with Play 2.0 and Akka 2.0), and the Typesafe Console.
March 13, 2012
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Typesafe Releases Typesafe Stack 2.0
March 06, 2012
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Typesafe has announced the general availability of the Akka 2.0 open source project.
February 22, 2012
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Today we are launching the Typesafe Thought Leadership Video Series, a collection of videos showcasing forward-looking opinions from our staff, partners and customers.
December 22, 2011
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Release of Scala IDE for Eclipse 2.0 Now Available
November 16, 2011
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Typesafe has announced commercial support for Play Framework, an open source web application framework for Java and Scala.
November 16, 2011
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Typesafe Announces Commercial Support for Play Framework 2.0
October 03, 2011
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Typesafe Releases Updated Distribution of Scala and Akka
October 03, 2011
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Heroku and Typesafe Partner to Bring Scala to the Heroku Platform
September 29, 2011
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Videos of over 60 sessions from the Scala Days 2011 annual conference are now available online.
June 23, 2011
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Typesafe Founder Recognized at JAX Innovation Awards 2011
June 01, 2011
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Typesafe CEO Martin Odersky to Keynote Scala Days Conference
May 12, 2011
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Typesafe is a company that takes Scala and Akka to the next stage. In this blog post, Martin Odersky explains why we founded the company and what role we see for it in the world of open source and enterprise software.
May 12, 2011
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Scala Creator Launches Typesafe to Commercialize Modern Application Platform for Multicore and Cloud Computing
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