Today, we are announcing a change to Akka’s license model so that Akka can be a thriving project for many decades. I created Akka 13 years ago out of love for programming, distributed systems, learning new things, and open source. It’s been a fantastic journey so far (read about Akka’s inception and early days here). Today, Akka is exceptionally reliable, scalable, and performant. It is the runtim

Today, it's my personal (me, as a person named Tonya Rae Moore who is typing this for you to read) pleasure to unveil the first ever Typesafe Ask Me Anything (AMA) Podcast feat. the Typesafe experts. As this podcast evolves, I'd like to start crowd-sourcing questions from our audience for upcoming guests. I'll be recording episode 02 at JavaOne next week with Konrad Malawski. We're going to talk a

My name is Mark Brewer and I’m the President and CEO of Typesafe. Today I have the privilege of sharing an exciting new project we are just beginning here at Typesafe: renaming the company. Why now? In recent years, we’ve seen exponentially increasing interest in Typesafe technologies like Play, Akka, Slick and Apache Spark in production by developers and organizations programming in Java. While S

Webinar: Akka 24.05 release highlights Tyler Jewell, CEO, Jonas Boner, founder and CTO, and Michael Nash, CISO, delve into the value and power of these new features and enhancements. Q&A to follow. Lightbend aims to democratize distributed systems for developers Tyler Jewell, CEO of Lightbend, talks about some of the key challenges developers are up against with distributed systems and how Lightbe