Open source application framework provider Lightbend has launched an open beta for its new Akka Serverless platform, which the company claims is the first to remove the barriers that prevent developers from using serverless to build business-critical applications.

Lightbend today announced the launch of Akka Serverless open beta, with general availability later this year. Akka Serverless is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering that aims at cloud-native application development.

Lightbend today unfurled a cloud service based on a serverless framework that provides developers with a managed DevOps platform to build applications that dynamically scale resources up and down as required.

Lightbend has announced the launch of Akka Serverless, a developer platform that sets a new standard for cloud-native application development. The launch of Akka Serverless highlights a renewed focus for Lightbend on supporting developer needs for building cloud-native services and APIs.

A startup called Lightbend Inc. is trying to get around the limitations of the serverless computing model that often prevent its adoption for more complex, data-hungry applications.

Lightbend is the company behind the Akka Platform, used by development teams to build the most demanding, globally distributed, cloud-native application environments and data streaming pipelines. To learn more about Akka, its architecture and serverless, VMblog reached out to Jonas Bonér, CEO & Founder at Lightbend, Inc.

Now available in open beta, this revolutionary approach to distributed state architecture enables cloud native, business-critical application development using any programming language and without the need for databases. 

Building an enterprise-scale app is tough. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve never done it (nor have any desire to), but even for the most seasoned developer, ensuring that an app operates efficiently at scale is no small task. We recently had the opportunity to sit down with some of the folks from Lightbend, creators of the Akka platform, to talk about how Akka is changing the way enterprises deliver their applications, and how they envision the product moving forward. Here’s a taste of what we learned.

The technology that powers cloud native applications at massive scale for the world’s most recognizable brands is now available on the Google Cloud Platform.

Lightbend's new Akka Cloud Platform seeks to bring a simpler approach to cloud-native development than options from hyperscalers and companies such as Pulumi and Serverless.

Lightbend today announced that the Akka platform it built for deploying distributed cloud-native applications is now available on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS).

Java and Scala developers who want an easier way to build distributed applications without all the muss and fuss of synchronizing locks and managing state will be interested to learn that Lightbend is now making its Akka Cloud Platform available on the AWS cloud.

Same technology that powers cloud native applications at massive scale at Starbucks, Tesla and Verizon has been optimized for the world’s most popular public cloud.

Bahwan CyberTek (BCT), a worldwide provider of digital transformation solutions, today announced the expansion of its global partnership with Lightbend, the creator of Akka Platform and leader in cloud native architecture.

Lightbend today announced the appointment of Abby Kearns, a technology executive with deep experience in cloud native and open source technology, to the company’s board of directors.

It's been about seven years since Jonas Bonér, co-founder and CTO of Lightbend and creator of the Akka project, first published “The Reactive Manifesto” with contributions from Dave Farley, Roland Kuhn, and Martin Thompson.

If you talked about ‘the cloud’ two decades ago, people would look up at the sky. Today, most people in the digitally connected world understand that ‘the cloud’ refers to some faraway server farm where data is stored. But now, there’s another term to contend with: cloud native.

A new report -- Cloud Native Adoption Trends 2020-2021 -- from Lightbend, the company behind the Scala programming language, sheds light on this trend. We spoke with Mark Brewer, CEO of the company to learn more about how developers and business leaders alike are looking higher up the stack, at the application layer.

Commentary: Containers ate your infrastructure, but what comes next at the application layer? A new survey points to big, industry-wide decisions to be made about the tech used to write applications.

More than 1,000 respondents reveal top priorities in cloud-native agenda, including Kubernetes, serverless, automation-versus-configuration tradeoffs and more.

Lightbend, the company behind the Scala JVM language and developer of the Reactive Platform, today announced the findings of a recent survey of more than 1,000 developers, software architects, and IT leaders, who described their cloud-native architecture priorities at the application layer (higher up the stack, above Kubernetes).

Real-time streaming data has become a reality for an increasing number of enterprise applications. From the “internet of things” to artificial intelligence, from mobile analytics to a diverse range of big-data challenges, dealing with firehoses of information in real time is rapidly becoming standard fare for enterprise information technology.

Serverless has its limits; and chief among them is management of state. AWS Lambda is the dominant serverless platform currently and its functions are, by decree, stateless — meaning there can be no record of previous interactions in a Lambda function.

Red Hat Marketplace provides a one-stop-shop to purchase enterprise applications and deploy across any cloud or on-premise

India’s number one fantasy sport platform Dream11 supports 80+ million fans on Akka Platform by Lightbend, slashes 30 percent in cloud infrastructure costs while improving performance and reliability

Kubernetes solves only half the problem of modernizing applications. The next stage will be filling the gap between Kubernetes and applications

Commentary: Two key open source projects--Kubernetes and Akka--have a lot to do in Tesla's vision of the electric grid.

Lightbend Named Collaboration Technology Partner of the Year, Recognized for Outstanding Channel Contributions for Open Source Software

Reactive architecture leader’s cloud-native platform and popular Akka project will leverage funding to meet demand for new serverless use cases.

When we last covered Lightbend in August 2017, cloud-native computing was yet to arrive on the scene. At the time, the Lightbend’s story centered on reactive computing, a technical approach for building real-time applications.

Lightbend, the company behind the Scala JVM language and developer of the Reactive Platform, recently launched an open source framework for developing, deploying, and operating streaming data pipelines on Kubernetes.

Cloudflow: A Framework for Streaming Data Pipelines on Kubernetes. Lightbend, the company that created the Scala programming language and Akka middleware, has launched Cloudflow, an open source framework to make it easier to develop and deploy streaming data pipelines on Kubernetes.

Developer-focused tooling orchestrates and operationalizes cloud-native, distributed streaming applications on Kubernetes

The Linux Foundation recently announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation. Its founding members are Alibaba, Lightbend, Pivotal and Netifi. So what exactly is this Reactive Kool-Aid, and why are all these companies guzzling it down so fast?

This week at O’Reilly Strata Data conference in New York, the foremost experts in the world of data and business will focus on best practice data techniques and technologies.

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation, a new community that aims to promote the use of reactive programming in networked applications.

The founder members of the new foundation are Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal, and the foundation is taking under its wing open source reactive specifications starting with RSocket.

Brewer joins panelists Larry Augustin, VP Amazon Web Services (formerly CEO of SugarCRM) and Scott Collison, CEO Anaconda with moderator Mark Radcliffe, attorney at DLA Piper

The new sub-foundation of the Linux Foundation will provide governance for open source reactive programming projects.

To accelerate reactive programming and technologies for the next generation of networked applications, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation.

Cloud-native application platform company Netifi Inc. Tuesday said it’s teaming up with some big names, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Facebook Inc., Pivotal Software Inc. and Lightbend Inc. to form the Reactive Foundation, which aims to accelerate the development of new technologies for building microservices-based applications.

On September 10, the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation, a community of leaders established to accelerate technologies for building the next generation of networked applications. The foundation is made up of Alibaba, Facebook, Lightbend, Netifi and Pivotal as initial members, and includes the successful open source Reactive Streams and RSocket specifications, along with programming language implementations.

Lightbend has recently announced CloudState. Created by the team behind Akka, Play and the Reactive movement, CloudState is the first open source serverless framework designed to bring stateful management on Knative/Kubernetes stack.

As demand for artificial intelligence use cases grows, developers seek skills development around machine learning model training and underlying streaming data architectures

Lightbend has launched a new open-source serverless framework to take on the next generation of serverless. CloudState aims to go beyond the normal stateless functions most serverless initiatives take on today.

Serverless technology offers developers a way to develop without thinking about the infrastructure resources required to run a program, but up until now it has mostly been limited to function-driven programming. CloudState, a new open source project from Lightbend, wants to change that by moving beyond functions.

Lightbend today announced the launch of CloudState, an OSS project designed to advance stateful workloads on the Knative / Kubernetes serverless stack.

In a recent survey conducted by The New Stack in partnership with streaming data platform provider Lightbend about how companies are handling state in containerized applications, 68% percent said that managing state is at least somewhat of an obstacle to moving more applications to microservices-based architectures. So how are companies managing everything from application configuration to persistent storage in their cloud native applications? Let’s dive into the state of state in cloud native applications.

As real-time data use cases drive digital transformation, roadshow focuses on best practices for streaming data on cloud-native, Kubernetes architecture

Lightbend Academy launches with 14 courses on design principles and patterns for cloud-native and streaming data -- essential know-how for AI, ML and IoT Use Cases.

Lausanne, Switzerland event hosted by Lightbend along with Scala Center and EPFL

Given their heritage supporting a specific open source technology, it is not surprising that Lightbend (Akka), Cloudera/Hortonworks (Hadoop) and Databricks (Spark) show prominently on users’ roadmaps.

Lightbend today announced it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, extending its commitment to Kubernetes and broadening its support for developers working in the cloud native software ecosystem.

A survey of 800 IT professionals found that developers are trying to keep with up with increasing industry demands for real-time data services.

One of the most remarkable drivers of streaming data revealed in the survey was a more than five-fold increase in AI/ML adoption over just a two year period. Companies processing data in real-time for AI/ML jumped from 6% in 2017 to 36% in 2019.

Lightbend-sponsored survey with The New Stack shows streaming data use in AI/ML jumping more than 500% from 2017 levels; survey explores the how and why of data streaming use in cloud applications and underlying software stack.

Akka reaches 10 year anniversary with Fortnite, PayPal, LinkedIn, Verizon, Capital One and thousands of other enterprise using the platform to solve cloud-native’s hardest scale challenges.

New system unifies and accelerates development and management of data-driven, streaming applications.

Red Hat and Lightbend launched a strategic alliance providing an integrated approach to building, deploying, and managing cloud-native applications. Lightbend is proud to be an Emerald Sponsor at the 2019 Red Hat Summit and OpenShift Commons.

InfoQ caught up with James Roper, architect and co-creator of the Lagom microservices framework at Lightbend, spoke to InfoQ about the latest release of MicroProfile.

Lightbend today announced that less than a year after its original launch, its self-paced training series -- Lightbend Reactive Architecture: Foundations and Lightbend Reactive Architecture: Advanced -- have reached 17,000 students enrolled, making them one of IBM Cognitive Class’ fastest-growing course series. IBM’s Cognitive Class features a series of free data science and cognitive computing courses, with a virtual lab environment that enables users to practice what they learn.

Application requirements have changed dramatically in the past few years. Applications handling gigabytes of data with response time in seconds are a thing of the past. Today, users expect a sub-second response time and the amount of data is measured in petabytes. Hence, the old and inefficient approaches to building software are being replaced by the reactive way of programming.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 26, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightbend today announced that Kubeflow, the industry-standard framework for machine learning workflows in Kubernetes-based environments, is now a certified component of Lightbend Platform, the industry’s leading system for building streaming data pipelines and reactive microservices.

At Strata Data Conference 2019, Wampler’s sessions will cover: Hands-on Machine Learning with Kafka-based Streaming Pipelines and Executive Briefing: What it takes to use machine learning in fast data pipelines.

Lightbend today announced that CTO and company co-founder Jonas Bonér will host the QCon London computing conference track “Operationalizing Microservices: Design, Deliver, Operate” running in London March 4 through March 8, 2019.

Stateful Service Design Considerations for the Kubernetes Stack - At this summer’s QCon in New York, Jonas Bonér delivered one of the most popular talks of the conference with his focus on Designing Events-First Microservices. In this InfoQ Q&A, we asked Bonér to explain how “bringing bad habits from monolithic design” is a road to nowhere for service design, and where he sees his Akka framework fitting in the cloud-native stack.

We’re at another juncture in enterprise computing where there is a large push behind a big vision of the future, the push towards serverless architectures — a world where less human oversight and participation is required in operations.

As digital transformation drives more requirements for applications that can process large quantities of data in real-time, Lightbend Platform addresses end-to-end requirements for developer productivity, responsiveness, resilience and elasticity in cloud-native systems

Lightbend today announced that Lightbend Fast Data Platform is generally available on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, bringing the first end-to-end developer and operations platform for Reactive microservices and streaming architectures to the OpenShift / Kubernetes cloud-native stack.

At this summer’s QCon in New York, Jonas Bonér delivered one of the most popular talks of the conference with his focus on Designing Events-First Microservices. In this InfoQ Q&A, we asked Bonér to explain how “bringing bad habits from monolithic design” is a road to nowhere for service design, and where he sees his Akka framework fitting in the cloud-native stack.

Forbes catches up with Lightbend CEO Mark Brewer and other leaders in open source to explore their thoughts on IBM's planned acquisition of Red Hat.

Lightbend today announced the release of Enterprise Suite 2.0, a management and monitoring toolset addressing the full range of operational requirements for running Reactive applications in production. The announcement was made at Reactive Summit, where Reactive adopters like Capital One, Google, PayPal, and Facebook are speaking this week.

Lightbend today announced the launch of a certification program to recognize industry professionals who have mastered the fundamentals of Reactive architecture.

Triplequote’s Hydra is first Scala compiler that parallelizes compilation across all available compute cores, speeding compilation up to 6x.

Lightbend, the company behind the Scala JVM language and developer of the Reactive Platform, unveiled the 2.0 version of its Fast Data Platform today at the Strata Data Conference in New York. This version of the one-year-old platform has been optimized for Kubernetes cluster deployment.

DZone talked to Mark Brewer, CEO of Lightbend, about defining new abstractions for enterprise systems in a microservices world.

Kubernetes and Fast Data Platform is the perfect marriage between distributed computing's most production-grade container orchestration solution in Kubernetes, and the most streaming data-optimized programming abstractions and run-time tooling in Fast Data Platform.

Streaming and other data applications continue to be paired with microservices as streaming data shake up application designs targeting AI, machine learning and other data-driven use cases.

Optimized for Kubernetes Deployment, Most Complete Platform for Developing and Operating Microservices-Based AI, ML, IoT and Other Streaming Data-Based Applications.

The New Stack catches up with Jonas Bonér as he explains why Kubernetes and Akka are a perfect match for cloud-native computing with Kuberentes and Docker solving problems like a failure from the infrastructure level and Akka addressing those problems from a programming model perspective.

Diamond sponsor IBM and Platinum sponsors Accenture and YoppWorks help bring together leading innovators in building and running distributed Reactive systems at scale.

Machine learning models — artificial intelligence (AI) that identifies relationships among hundreds, thousands, or even millions of data points — are rarely easy to architect. Data scientists spend weeks and months not only preprocessing the data on which the models are to be trained, but extracting useful features (i.e., the data types) from that data, narrowing down algorithms, and ultimately building (or attempting to build) a system that performs well not just within the confines of a lab, but in the real world.

Epic Games ingests 92 million events per minute (or about 54 billion events per day) from Fortnite clients. The company is looking to technologies like Kubernetes to help it manage all the back-end servers and services, including dozens of microservices written in Java, Akka, and Go, that it needs to run its game.

With the container market expected to reach $2.7 billion by 2020, developers need a programming model for distributed computing. Distributed computing is the technology inside containers, that is managed by Kubernetes.

Free online training course brings popular Lightbend Reactive training curriculum to IBM Cognitive Class

Celebrating declaration of key principles of building responsive, resilient, elastic and message-driven distributed systems deployed by leading companies like Capital One, LinkedIn, Verizon Wireless, Walmart and more

Reactive is how you design a modern application to take advantage of unlimited scalability in the cloud. DZone caught up with Mark Brewer, CEO of Lightbend, to learn more.

InfoQ catches up with James Roper, senior developer and co-creator of the Lagom microservices framework at Lightbend, on recently being named a committer for Eclipse MicroProfile and why Lightbend became a participating member of Jakarta EE.

So much has happened in the enterprise Java space over the past few months that it kind of boggles the mind. Fortunately, the rockstars, gurus and industry watchers have been busily sorting out the whats and wherefores of this epic transformation in the blogosphere. (You thought it was just me, right?) Seems like a good time to pass along a bit of that wisdom with some recommended reading.

IBM's Cloud Private for Data is the latest spin on the age-old idea of turnkey system, but architected and updated for the architecture of the private cloud. It addresses a need for organizations wishing the flexibility of the cloud whose policies otherwise rule out use of public clouds.

A newly minted committer to MicroProfile discusses how he thinks the initiative will interact and integrate with Jakarta EE in the future.

Latest survey of Java EE developers finds cloud, microservices and containers dominate future plans.

The results of the Jakarta EE community survey revealed that cloud-native development is a top requirement in the platform’s evolution, alongside the need for a faster pace of innovation on the Jakarta EE platform. Users’ wish has been granted! The Eclipse Foundation unveiled the new open source governance model and a “cloud-native Java” path for Jakarta EE.

The community's top three priorities for Jakarta: the platform should evolve to support cloud-native development, microservices and a faster pace of innovation.

IBM has been struggling to invigorate its appeal to developers, but a year-old partnership with Lightbend is finally paying off. By working with Lightbend, it seems that IBM has recognized that it needs an infusion of savvy developer expertise, coupled with winning developer-oriented technology. In Lightbend it gets both.

As part of our ongoing look at the evolution of Jakarta EE, for this episode of CodeTalk, we discuss cloud-native trends for the Java stack with Jonas Bonér, the original author of the Reactive Manifesto.

Reactive movement and Fast Data pioneers on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bring expertise to help evolve Java EE platform for cloud-native requirements and distributed systems

Scala’s exclusive event series offers premier education and networking opportunities from the original language creators and community

There is excitement and optimism over the Eclipse Foundation taking over stewardship of Java EE from Oracle. See what's in store for enterprise development.

There are many reasons why you should care about events; they drive autonomy, increase stability, help you move faster and allow for time travel, Jonas Bonér noted in his presentation at QCon London 2018, where he explored how events are reshaping modern systems.

In this article, Jonas Bonér and Viktor Klang start by reviewing the current state of enterprise integration and its challenges, and then demonstrate how organizations can achieve more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications by adopting a reactive and stream-based mindset and tools.

“Microservices,” along with “serverless” and “DevOps,” are terms that are hard to define because they describe patterns and architectures as much as specific technologies. Yet, survey data points to a strong correlation between many of these subjects. A survey conducted by Lightbend in mid-2017 focusing on “fast data” showed another strong link between microservices adoption and use of streaming technologies.

Investing in streaming enables data in motion and real-time applications, as well as some of the most interesting AI and ML use cases today.

New Dataprobe product by Gluetech built on top of Lightbend Fast Data Platform; automates reporting and compliance across CCAR, BCBS2 239, GDPR, and MiFID regulations.

Reactive architecture stresses responsiveness, resiliency, and elasticity. So see how IBM is putting it into use, including thoughts on moving to production.

Jonas Bonér explains, when it comes to event-driven architecture, start with the verbs and what happens in the system, rather than the nouns in the domain.

Diamond Sponsor IBM Joined by Platinum Sponsors Cake Solutions and Mesosphere at The Event of the Year for Reactive Community

Three keys to know for microservices:

1. independent deployment;
2. your own schema; and,
3. accessing data through APIs.

Lightbend VP of corporate development and biz dev, Brad Murdoch explains how fast data is disrupting the modern big data application stack, and the significance of Lightbend’s new distribution.

The company is best known for its Reactive application development platform but has responded to customer interest in streaming data with the launch of its Fast Data Platform, which includes Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and Apache Flink, among other things.

Here are five companies exhibiting at the Strata Data Conference this week that are either new, or are doing something new and innovative with big data.

Lightbend recently revealed the findings of a new survey of 2,457 global developers. We talked with Mark Brewer, the CEO of Lightbend about the key findings, differences between fast data and big data, misconceptions and more.

Over 2,400 developers say fast data development trends are driving language and framework choices, app response times, and adoption of real-time streaming technologies.

On the day of Lightbend's release of its new Fast Data Platform, VMblog catches up with Lightbend CTO and Akka creator Jonas Bonér, to hear his thoughts on where fast data use cases are leading JVM developers, and what he sees coming next.

To remain relevant, companies are going to need to master the intricacies of 'fast data.' However, there are some challenges to its adoption.

Today at the O’Reilly Strata Data Conference, Lightbend announced general availability of the Lightbend Fast Data Platform, the first end-to-end platform that makes it easier for enterprises to design, build, and run streaming applications. 

In a new Lightbend survey, more than 2,400 developers say fast data development trends are driving language and framework choices, application response times, and accelerating adoption of real-time streaming technologies.

Recently a partnership with Lightbend underscored Big Blue’s commitment to the Java and Scala communities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The partnership will result in the development of enterprise-grade cognitive applications on-premise and in the cloud.

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.

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.

The partnership will result in the development of enterprise-grade cognitive applications on-premise and in the cloud.

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.

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.

IBM Corp. announced a collaboration today with Lightbend Inc. in a bid to fire up the creation of artificial intelligence applications in large enterprises.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Lightbend today announced its partnership with HPE Security Fortify to develop breakthrough static analysis security testing capabilities for the Scala programming language.

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...

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.

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.

Lightbend's Scala Team Lead, Adriaan Moors, is interviewed by ADTMag's John K Waters on what's happening with Scala 2.12.

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.

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.

Lightbend Fast Data Platform is the first comprehensive application platform that addresses the challenges of streaming systems head on.

Consider Java VMs the original application 'containers,' now facing stiff competition from a new generation of containers.

New survey of more than 2,100 JVM developers finds at least half now embrace microservices to boost their speed and agility.

Voxxed.com covers Lightbend's Enterprise Development Trends 2016 survey.

The Java EE app server may be dying, but a new Lightbend survey sheds light on where developers are placing their bets...

Editors at thenewstack.io analyze data from Lightbend and others to understand more about enterprise development trends.

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.

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.

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...

Findings show “Fast Data” and Cloud as major catalysts replacing legacy Java EE application servers with microservices and containers.

Early bird registration closes August 31 for our leading event focused on Reactive Systems, Microservices, and Fast Data pipelines...

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.

Lightbend partner Mesosphere announces support for state in container apps via the DataStax–Confluent–Lightbend stack.

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."

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...

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.

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”...

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.

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.

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...

Today at Spark Summit, Lightbend announced that it is working with IBM to help enterprises operationalize big data across their application infrastructure.

Lightbend, a pioneer in Reactive Systems, is building out its tools to support enterprises with cloud-first business models built on microservices.

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.

Zalando's "Radical Agility" powered by Lightbend technologies is becoming a mainstream way for businesses to scale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

In a conversation with InfoQ, Lightbend co-founder and CTO Jonas Bonér shared his view on Lagom.

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.

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.

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. 

Two characteristics to consider when building a microservices-based architecture.

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."

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.

Lightbend's Lagom framework helps Java developers create and manage microservices architectures.

JAXenter covers Lightbend and Lagom launch. 

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’.

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.

Jonas Bonér shares his predictions on what lies ahead for enterprise developers in 2016 with John Waters of Application Development Trends.

A new Typesafe survey of more than 3,000 indicates aggressive use of microservices and fast data among adopters of Reactive systems.

Typesafe Survey of More Than 3,000 Respondents Shows Aggressive Use of Microservices and Fast Data Among Reactive Movement's Adopters

Typesafe Monitoring Now Available With Reactive Platform Subscription; New Functionality Brings Deep Insight Into Actor Metrics Within Akka-Based Applications

Architecture and Design Review, On-Site Training and 24/7 Production SLAs by the Scala Language Experts Accelerates Spark Adoption for Enterprise Developers

IoT is currently a Babel of disparate "standards," but a new initiative from Samsung promises to change that.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.

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.

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.

Even mid-market companies need sophisticated tools to speed development and scale. Matt Asay explains.

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.

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.”

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.

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."

Optimized for Typesafe Reactive Platform, New System Gives Operators a Convenient, Predictable Way of Managing Distributed Application Clusters

The new tool ConductR makes it easier to manage high-scalability applications.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Based on Survey of More Than 2,100 Respondents, 13% Already Using Spark in Production, 20% Planning to Use in 2015, and 31% "Evaluating"

Architecting software to fail as gracefully as possible.

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. 

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.

Typesafe co-founder and CTO, Jonas Bonér, shares the top trends in reactive programming for 2015. 

"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."

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. 

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.

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.

New Certification Brings Scala, Akka and Play Framework to Microsoft Azure, as Well as Windows Dev Center

Typesafe’s latest survey on Java 8 explains the success of lambdas and what it means for Scala.

Java doesn't look like surrendering its lead with developers anytime soon, as adoption Java 8 is six months ahead of schedule.

Matt Asay spoke with Typesafe CTO and Akka creator Jonas Bonér about recent Java 8 survey.

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.

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.

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

Tiho Bajic, vice president of technology at Nitro, shares three advantages to be gained from being proactive about reactive application engineering.

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

Matt Asay interviews Jonas Bonér about Reactive's traction on the eve of publishing version 2.0 of the Reactive Manifesto.

Dice magazine inerviews Typesafe's Jamie Allen about top interview questions for Scala devs.

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. 

Introduces "Reactive Application Development With Spark" Workshop

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.
 

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.

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]."

RebelLabs published an interview with Scala tech lead, Adriaan Moors. 

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.

"As announced in the recent Scala roadmap (https://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."

RebelLabs Study Based on Developer Feedback and Market Data Affirms Popularity of Scala as Powerful Language for the JVM

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.

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.

Jonas Bonér came up with a way to handle heavy, bursty information flows from billions of connected devices.

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

Spark has emerged as the next-generation platform for writing Big Data applications for Hadoop and Mesos clusters. 

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.

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. 

Akka, Play, Scala and Typesafe Platform see growth in media industry as modern newsroom and reader traffic realities shake up old world application infrastructures

Paul Rubens outlines the six programming langauges developers should learn to increase their employability. Scala comes in at number 3!

Sold Out Conference in Berlin Attracts Developers and CTOs From Around the World to Promote Innovation and Advancement on the JVM

Gilt's daily traffic spikes were a problem, but it found a solution: Scala.

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.

"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."

"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."

"Typesafe has announced the early preview of Akka Streams, an open source implementation of the Reactive Streams draft specification using an Actor-based implementation."

Implemented on the Draft Proposal Reactive Streams Specification, Akka Streams Clears Path for Developers to Asynchronous, Non-Blocking Data Streaming.

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.

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.

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.

Typesafe Co-founder and CTO, Jonas Boner, on functional programming and Java 8.

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.

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.

Gain advice from a developer who helped rebuild Walmart.ca with Scala and Play. 

Typesafe partner, AppDynamics, announces 2014 Spring Release, featuring Scala, Akka and Play Framework support. 

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.

Paul Krill covers Oracle's long-anticipated update includes addition of lambda expressions and shift to functional programming language. 

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.

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.

John Waters, Application Development Trends, covers Typesafe's recent Java 8 survey and interviews VP of Engineering, Derek Henninger.

 Rotem Hermon, former Chief Architect for serendip.me, writes about the architecture and scaling considerations behind making a startup music service.

Christina Mulligan from SD Times writes about Typesafe's Java 8 survey.

Lucy Carey, JAXenter, covers recent Typesafe survey.

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.

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.

Paul Krill writes about Typesafe's Java 8 survey results and his interview with co-founder and CTO, Jonas Bonér.

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.

Jonas Bonér, Typesafe co-founder and CTO, is interviewed at eclipseCON about Reactive applications. 

Scala turns 10!

Patrik Nordwall, Senior Software Engineer at Typesafe, writes about the large Akka Cluster on Google Compute Engine. 

Slick 2.0  Introduces Functional Relational Mapping to the JVM.

Andrey Redko shares how SBT (simple build tool) can benefit Java developers.

Francesco Cesarini, founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions, interviews Typesafe's Viktor Klang about the Reactive Manifesto.

InfoWorld picks the best hardware, software, development tools and cloud services of the year, and Scala makes the cut! 

Werner Schuster, InfoQ, interviews Typesafe's Dean Wampler at GotoCon Aarhus about Scalding, NoSQL, Scala, Functional Programming and Big Data. 

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.

Salil Deshpande, Managing Director with Bain Capital Ventures, lists reactive applications in his top three predictions for Software Infrastructure in 2014. 
 

Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist at O'Reilly Media, discusses Scala's growing popularity in the field of Big Data.

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.

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. 

John K. Waters, Application Development Trends, interviews Typesafe CTO and co-founder, Jonas Bonér, on recent Spray.io acquisition and Reactive applications.

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.

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.

RedMonk's James Governor discusses how the future of business is reactive...

The Company Behind Play Framework, Akka, and Scala Improves Developer Productivity With Release of New Tool for Building Reactive Applications

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.

All Star Speaking Lineup Includes Sessions by EPFL, Barclays, Comcast LinkedIn, eBay and More

Registration, Call for Papers Now Open and Sponsorship Slots Now Open

Former Director of R&D for VMware's Development Tools to Drive Innovation for Typesafe's Products and Projects

Ticketfly builds powerful reserved seating engine with Scala and Akka

Today we’re eager to share a new case study from Lucidchart!

Developer Contest Winners Announced!

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.

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.

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.

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:

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!

We are excited to announce the Scala Worksheet V0.1.2 for the Scala IDE V2.1-M2.

Typesafe Appoints Rod Johnson to Board of Directors as Company Growth Accelerates

Typesafe Unveils Scala1 Mobile App for JavaOne

Typesafe Closes $14 Million Series B Funding Round

Typesafe Announces Scala Language Integrated Connection Kit

Juniper Networks Selects Typesafe Stack

Typesafe Appoints Mark Brewer as Chief Executive Officer

Typesafe Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Industry Analyst Firm

Typesafe Sponsors Sold-Out Scala Days in London

Introducing Typesafe Stack 2.0 (with Play 2.0 and Akka 2.0), and the Typesafe Console.

Typesafe Releases Typesafe Stack 2.0

Typesafe has announced the general availability of the Akka 2.0 open source project.

Today we are launching the Typesafe Thought Leadership Video Series, a collection of videos showcasing forward-looking opinions from our staff, partners and customers. 

Release of Scala IDE for Eclipse 2.0 Now Available

Typesafe has announced commercial support for Play Framework, an open source web application framework for Java and Scala.

Typesafe Announces Commercial Support for Play Framework 2.0

Typesafe Releases Updated Distribution of Scala and Akka

Heroku and Typesafe Partner to Bring Scala to the Heroku Platform

Videos of over 60 sessions from the Scala Days 2011 annual conference are now available online.

Typesafe Founder Recognized at JAX Innovation Awards 2011

Typesafe CEO Martin Odersky to Keynote Scala Days Conference

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.

Scala Creator Launches Typesafe to Commercialize Modern Application Platform for Multicore and Cloud Computing