Lightbend, Inc.

Lightbend is the company behind the open-source frameworks Akka, Play and Lagom, as well as the Scala programming language. Earlier company material also lists Cloudflow for streaming data pipelines and Cloudstate for serverless work. Its website today is centred on Akka, now positioned as a platform for building agentic AI systems.

What Lightbend offers

• Akka — a runtime and toolset for scalable, resilient distributed applications, now aimed at agentic AI.
• Play and Lagom — application frameworks for web and microservices development.
• Cloudflow — a framework for streaming data pipelines.
• Cloudstate — a serverless project.
• Community events — it hosts Reactive Summit and Scala Days.

Who it works with

Enterprises building real-time, cloud-native applications. The Akka site names customers in financial services, food delivery, farming and video streaming.

Key facts

• Reactive Manifesto: its authors, per its own profile
• Reactive Streams: founding member of the initiative