Lightbend

Lightbend Inc.
IndustryComputer software
FounderMartin Odersky
Jonas Bonér
Paul Phillips[1]
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California
ServicesDistribution and support on the Lightbend Reactive Platform
Websitewww.lightbend.com

Lightbend, formerly known as Typesafe, is a company founded by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka middleware, and Paul Phillips in 2011.

It provides a platform for building reactive applications for the JVM, consisting of the Play Framework, Akka middleware and Scala programming language, with additional supporting products and development tools such as the Slick database library for Scala and the sbt build tool. Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform.

Lightbend is one of the main contributors of Reactive Streams.[2][3][4]

In February 2016, the company was renamed from Typesafe to Lightbend and adopted a new logo.

  1. ^ "Paul Phillips: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". Bloomberg News. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Reactive Streams Releases First Stable Version for JVM
  3. ^ A Journey into Reactive Streams
  4. ^ Reactive Streams 1.0.0 interview