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Yes, Real-Time Streaming Data Is Still Growing

A funny thing happened while the tech world was focused almost exclusively on ChatGPT over the past eight months: Adoption of other cutting-edge technologies kept growing. One of those is real-time stream data processing Read more…

Climbing the Ladder of Abstraction

Today’s cloud infrastructure is fantastic. The richness and power of our cloud-native ecosystem around Kubernetes are easy to forget. It’s hard to remember the world before containers and Kubernetes. How hard it was Read more…

Akka Cloud Platform Now on AWS

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 Read more…

Real-Time Streaming for ML Usage Jumps 5X, Study Says

A new survey sponsored by Lightbend found that implementations of real-time stream data processing systems for machine learning and AI applications jumped by 500% over the past two years. It also found that Kafka is almo Read more…

Kubernetes Is a Prime Catalyst in AI and Big Data’s Evolution

Kubernetes is becoming synonymous with cloud-native computing. As an open-source platform, it enables development, deployment, orchestration and management of containerized microservices across multicloud ecosystems. Read more…

Lightbend Adds Kubernetes for ‘Reactive’ Microservices

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. The latest to jump on the m Read more…

Five Companies to Watch at Strata Data Conference

Just like the Big Apple, the big data industry doesn't sleep, and innovations are constantly occuring. Here are five companies exhibiting at the Strata Data Conference this week that are either new, or are doing somethin Read more…

This Just In

Lightbend Announces the Industry’s First Programming Model Enabling Application Development for both Cloud and Edge

Oct 31, 2023 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31, 2023 – Lightbend, Inc., the company providing cloud-native microservices frameworks for some of the world’s largest brands, today announced the release of its latest version of Akka, one of the industry’s most powerful platforms for distributed computing, which incorporates a new and unique programming model that enables developers to build an application once and have it work across both cloud and edge environments. Read more…

Lightbend Changes Its Software Licensing Model for Akka Technology

Sep 7, 2022 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2022 — Lightbend, the company providing a cloud-native microservices platform for some of the world’s largest brands, today announced significant changes to the licensing model for its Akka technology. Read more…