Lightbend Reactive Platform
Meet the application development platform for building Reactive systems, so your business stays responsive no matter what.
Lightbend Reactive Platform is an application development solution powered by an open source core and commercial Production Suite for building scalable Reactive systems on the JVM.
Lightbend Reactive Platform
Business Benefits
More reliable infrastructure
At the heart of Lightbend Reactive Platform is Akka, an actor-based message-driven runtime that provides the foundation for unprecedented resilience.
With Reactive Platform, for the first time in its history, Walmart.ca experienced zero downtime during Black Friday and Boxing Day...More profitable infrastructure
Because Lightbend Reactive Platform is actor-based and uses asynchronous message passing, it more densely utilizes commodity hardware compared with traditional systems bloated by locked threads. The cost savings are huge.
Moving to Reactive Platform allowed Hootsuite to shave 80% off its AWS footprint...Massive scalability and elasticity
Lightbend Reactive Platform scales up and out effortlessly on multi-core and cloud computing architectures. It handles bursty traffic with ease, without requiring hardware over provisioning, so you can reap the benefits of elasticity.
At online gaming leader William Hill, personalized offers may only be valid for thirty seconds and must perform perfectly when traffic regularly spikes by 100x...Higher developer productivity
Industry analyst Forrester reports a much larger proportion of the developer population finds the actor model approachable compared to writing multithreaded code within object-oriented frameworks.
By utilizing actors, developers at The Guardian focus on writing business logic instead of worrying about low-level tasks like memory locking and state or thread management...Rapid time to value
The actor-based, asynchronous foundation of Lightbend Reactive Platform reduces dependencies between components, which enables feature teams to work autonomously and delivery continuously.
At MoneySuperMarket, engineering changes are propagating 700% faster with Lightbend Reactive Platform, positively impacting every aspect of feature creation and revenue generation...Access to real-time insights
When Apache Spark is combined with your Reactive application, you can reimagine how data flows through your organization. As you move away from data-at-rest to a data-in-motion message-based architecture, you can slash analytical latencies from hours to seconds.
By rapidly analyzing decades of historical data, UniCredit is generating new personalized banking services that were never before possible...Disrupt markets
Lightbend Reactive Platform accelerates time to Value. It can also unleash innovation to capture entirely new markets.
When Verizon set its sights on a the $40 billion mobile content market, the development team launched its go90 video platform in just 18 months...Reduce risk and accelerate learning
We are on this journey together and your success is our top priority. That’s why our subscription program provides an annual license to Lightbend Reactive Platform and includes development and production support. Our goal is to keep your project on track and your top talent engaged.
Provide direct access to experts
Unlike other vendors that barricade their experts behind layers of escalation, your team receives direct access to the creators and committers of our amazing technology.
Give advice early and often
No need to wait for a blocker to arise. Our team of experts is here to answer how-to’s and what-if’s and is excited to share best practice tips. The more advanced your team becomes, the more value they will likely find engaging with our experts
Deliver context for knowledge transfer
Rather than terse answers, our team takes the time wrap their response with detailed background context to accelerate knowledge transfer.
Assist with talent acquisition
In this market, attracting top talent is paramount for most businesses. To help you build your dream team, we post your job openings on our website and then regularly tweet or promote during webinars to amplify your reach.
Offer commercial license, warranties and indemnification
For businesses that want extra assurance, Lightbend provides a commercial license agreement in lieu of open source terms. The included comprehensive warranty and indemnification can significantly reduce risk by protecting your company against IP claims and other unforeseen liabilities.
Provide certified builds and long-term support
To simplify development and and mitigate risk in deployment we offer a certified build of validated integrations between our core projects–Lagom, Play Framework, Akka, and Scala–plus any additional components distributed in the Lightbend Reactive Platform. An extended two-year support period for older versions of our projects includes backports of fixes to ensure stability of your distributed systems.
The Lightbend partnership was the best way to ramp up the team for all the challenges.
Verizon
It’s precious for us to have the confidence of always getting the most correct answer; we never get blocked for more than 24 hours.
iHeartRadio