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.

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.

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 developement 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 (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."

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