Jonas Bonér and Viktor Klang define and clarify the term “Reactive” by looking deeply at the differences between writing code in a Reactive Programming style, and the design of Reactive System architectures, where implementation techniques, tooling, and design patterns are important components of the cohesive whole. 

This is the last Tech Digest in 2016. While hopefully all of you enjoy some downtime during the holiday season, we end this year with a recap of the happenings in our community in December.

See the top 10 videos from 2016 Scala Days!

In this webinar aimed at Architects and Developers working with more traditional Java environments, Lightbend’s Sean Walsh and Duncan DeVore take us on a journey that goes beyond just asynchronous programming and into the very basics of designing Reactive systems as a whole...

Most likely, your job is heavily focused on helping your organization modernize for the digital era. As the days of purely Object-Oriented Programming and related frameworks come to a close, enterprises migrating to distributed, cloud infrastructures are embracing a different approach: the Actor Model.

We are thrilled to announce the 2017 Scala Days Conferences will be held in Chicago on April 18 - 21, 2017 and in Copenhagen, on May 30 - June 2 ,2017. Now is the time to submit sessions and save the dates!

Winter is coming. But nothing stops the November Tech Digest on Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala!

In this talk for Architects and Dev Managers by Akara Sucharitakul, Principal MTS for Global Platform Frameworks at PayPal, we look at how back-pressure based on Akka Streams and Kafka is being used in PayPal's mission-critical production systems to handle very bursty workloads.

We proudly announce the launch of Lightbend Solution Architect Hugh McKee's concise, 43-page O'Reilly book Designing Reactive Systems: The Role Of Actors In Distributed Architecture, which covers what your team should know about the Actor Model from the ground up. In less than 1 hour.

In this webinar, Lightbend’s Big Data Architect, Dr. Dean Wampler, examines the rise of streaming systems for handling time-sensitive problems, exploring the characteristics of fast data architectures and the open source tools for implementing them.

Recently, the Lightbend team sponsored O'Reilly SACon London and met hundreds of architects, executives and developers interested in modernizing with Reactive technologies. In this interview with Mike Henderson, VP of Content at O'Reilly, Lightbend's Duncan DeVore, co-author of the Manning book Reactive Application Development, talks about the differences between Reactive Programming (one component of Reactive systems) and Reactive System Design, which looks at a much broader whole.

We are proud to announce the availability of Scala 2.12.0!

With significant advances in distributed computing and the advent of cloud infrastructure, the way enterprises are designing new system architectures is rapidly departing from the legacy model of the past. If your applications are not designed (or re-architected) appropriately, then it is impossible to take advantage of these advances. That’s where Lightbend comes in...

Scala By the Bay (SBTB) is the oldest and biggest West Coast Scala conference in the US, continuously run since 2013. For years Typesafe, now Lightbend, has been instrumental in its home community. We are happy to extend our special discount LIGHTBEND20 to the whole conference, fully hosted at Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters for the first time on November 11-13. 

Switching on the lights to fight the dark half of the year. The October Tech Digest is here to learn about Akka, Lagom, Play and Scala!

I recently had a chat with Raymond Roestenburg, co-author of Akka In Action, to ask him about how Akka brings the brilliance of the Actor Model, first developed over 40 years ago, to the mainstream embrace of the JVM, and namely Java 8.

After working together over a span of some weeks, we are now happy to announce that Akka Cluster now works on Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

A solid week after the inaugural edition of the Reactive Summit, we're proud to announce that the recordings for the session have been published on the Reactive Summit YouTube channel. Free! For everybody to watch!

Our Fast Data team at Lightbend has helped create a lot of different services, webinars, books and reports over the last year, so we made a special "mega-pack" of 7 resources to help you get exactly what you need....

Around Monday or Tuesday, September 26–27th, 2016, we started to see occasional failures to retrieve sbt artifacts in our CI environment. An incident report.