Akka gRPC update delivers 1200% performance improvement

This post looks at how Akka gRPC went from 29th place to 1st place in a community benchmark over a period of just three months, delivering an impressive 1231% increase in processing throughput (req/s) and a 93% reduction in average latency per request. | Continue reading


@lightbend.com | 2 years ago

The best of serverless and state without any of the hassle

Akka Serverless makes building cloud-native applications for your business pain free by making it easily adoptable, simple to manage, and cost-effective. | Continue reading


@lightbend.com | 2 years ago

What Martin Odersky (Scala) said about Phil Bagwell (HAMT) when he died

Typesafe's Phil Bagwell passed away on October 6, 2012. We, and the entire community, are deeply saddened by this loss. Our hearts go out to his family and everyone who knew him. Below are the words spoken by Typesafe co-founder and creator of Sca... | Continue reading


@lightbend.com | 3 years ago

How Akka Cluster Works: Actors Living in a Cluster

In this How Akka Cluster Works demo project, we dive deeper into the code and behavior behind Akka actors living in the cluster, supported by visualizations and sample code that you can download to your own machine. | Continue reading


@lightbend.com | 3 years ago

Sbt 1.3.0

sbt 1.3.0 is available with exciting changes, including out-of-box Coursier library management, IO improvements, super shell, and "turbo" mode that enables experimental ClassLoader layering. | Continue reading


@lightbend.com | 4 years ago

Scala's Creator Reviews His Favorite Parts of Scala 3.0

Join Dr. Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala and co-founder of Lightbend, on a tour of what is in store and highlight some of his favorite features of Dotty, which will become Scala 3. | Continue reading


@lightbend.com | 4 years ago