Lightbend

Lightbend Inc. is a software company founded in 2011, originally known as Typesafe. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company is best known for its contributions to the development and promotion of reactive programming and the Scala programming language. Lightbend is the primary commercial entity behind the Akka toolkit, a distributed, concurrent, and resilient message-driven runtime. They also offer the Play Framework, a web application framework for Java and Scala.

Lightbend's mission revolves around helping organizations build modern, scalable, and resilient applications. They advocate for a reactive systems approach, emphasizing responsiveness, resilience, elasticity, and message-driven architecture. Their software is designed to handle high volumes of data and concurrent users, making it suitable for use cases in areas like real-time data processing, IoT, and microservices.

The company's product suite has evolved over time. In addition to Akka and Play, Lightbend has offered platforms and support services aimed at enterprise customers seeking to adopt reactive principles. They play a significant role in the open-source community, particularly for the technologies they champion. Their business model typically involves offering commercial support, training, and enterprise-grade features built upon their open-source foundations.