Lightbend
Technology Podcasts
Lightbend (@Lightbend) is leading the enterprise transformation toward real-time, cloud-native applications. Lightbend Platform provides scalable, high-performance microservices frameworks and streaming engines for building data-centric systems that are optimized to run on cloud-native infrastructure. The most admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with Lightbend, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world. For more information, visit www.lightbend.com.
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United States
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Technology Podcasts
Description:
Lightbend (@Lightbend) is leading the enterprise transformation toward real-time, cloud-native applications. Lightbend Platform provides scalable, high-performance microservices frameworks and streaming engines for building data-centric systems that are optimized to run on cloud-native infrastructure. The most admired brands around the globe are transforming their businesses with Lightbend, engaging billions of users every day through software that is changing the world. For more information, visit www.lightbend.com.
Language:
English
Episodes
How can we democratize complex data access patterns for serverless?
8/30/2021
Today's guest is Leon Stigter, Principal Product Manager for Akka Serverless. We discuss the origins and promises of serverless, some of the limitations of stateless functions for serverless, why data-centric serverless applications need more data access patterns to get the job done, how Akka Serverless democratizes access to the features and patterns developers need to be successful, and more.
Duration:00:38:51
What Does Developer Productivity Mean in the Serverless Era?
7/8/2021
Our guests Kiki Carter, Lead Developer Experience Engineer, and Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate for Akka Platform, return to the show after our last podcast, where we discussed whether it is worth it to manage Kubernetes (and other cloud native technologies and infrastructure) yourself, or use a managed solution. This naturally led to the topic of what developers actually want out of the technologies they use, and what are the truly important parts of the user experience.
Duration:00:39:27
How Agricultural IoT Helps Farmers Get Data Out Of Hard To Reach Places
6/28/2021
Today we sit down with Christopher Hunt (Twitter: @huntchr), former Lightbender and now the founder/CTO of an Australian IoT startup called Titan Class. Commissioned by Cisco Systems, Titan Class makes Farmify, a field-based digital twin IoT solution designed using Akka Streams that gathers and analyzes various sensor metrics to enable intelligent farming. Learn more here: https://www.titanclass.com.au/ https://www.farmify.com.au/
Duration:00:42:59
From OSS Hobby To $1m+ Hosted Platform with Snipe-IT
6/25/2021
In this podcast, our special guest is Alison Gianotto, aka [at]snipeyhead on Twitter. Alison is the CEO and founder of Grokability, the company behind Snipe-IT, which is a free as well as hosted solution for managing the where, when, and what of a company’s physical assets. Today we’re talking about going from an open source hobby to a hosted platform with a global client base and increasing revenues, and hopefully touch on other topics like using social networks for business, the...
Duration:00:37:09
Managed Kubernetes or DIY: That Is The Question
5/19/2021
In this Lightbend podcast with Kiki Carter, Lead Developer Experience Engineer, and Hugh McKee, Developer Advocate for Akka Platform, we take a look at work. Namely, how much time should software engineers give to working on something that we don’t like, aren’t especially good at, or would otherwise avoid in favor of other more interesting topics? Industry trends indicate that the less we developers need to mess with Kubernetes and other cloud based entities like databases and load...
Duration:00:43:50
How Cloud Native Applications Enable Enterprise Innovation
4/18/2021
In this Lightbend podcast, we are joined by Abby Kearns, CTO at Puppet and Lightbend board member, to discuss how cloud native applications enable enterprise innovation, best practices for getting started, and the rise of new cloud native technologies.
Duration:00:18:16
Akka Cloud Platform: What, Why and What’s Next
3/15/2021
In this Lightbend podcast, we are joined by Jeremy Pollock, Senior Director of Product Management, to discuss the recent release of Akka Cloud Platform on AWS, what this means for Akka users, where Lightbend is heading with regards to cloud-based marketplace offerings and even our plans for hosted services. Read the transcription: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/lightbend-podcast-akka-cloud-platform-what-why-and-whats-next
Duration:00:35:31
How Akka can boost your Scala application
1/22/2021
Aleksandar Skrbic, a software developer based in Novi Sad, Serbia, and author of some great introductory posts on Akka Actors, discusses how Akka has boosted his Scala career as a distributed systems developer.
Duration:00:22:01
Serverless Is Back (Again)
11/23/2020
Has the momentum behind serverless architectures for cloud native apps stalled? Viktor Klang, VP of Cloud at Lightbend, weighs in.
Duration:00:37:37
Akka Projections: Next Generation CQRS and Event Sourcing
10/13/2020
In this Lightbend Podcast, we sit down with Renato Cavalcanti, senior engineer on the Akka team, frequent conference speaker (at least in past days), and organizer of the Belgian Scala User Group, BeScala. The topic is the recent release of Akka Projections 1.0, a new addition to the Akka toolkit that provides the next generation solution for CQRS and Event Sourcing in cloud native applications.
Duration:00:22:33
Cloudstate: Leveraging Distributed State for Serverless
7/27/2020
Lightbend Field CTO and Cloud Advocate, Sean Walsh, discusses the developments in Cloudstate, Lightbend’s open source tool for distributed state management for serverless workloads on Kubernetes. Read the full post at: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/lightbend-podcast-cloudstate-leveraging-distributed-state-for-serverless
Duration:00:34:56
Scaling Akka Cluster to 10000 nodes with Rapid (Manuel Bernhardt)
5/18/2020
This webinar's guest is Manuel Bernhardt, Akka expert, Reactive systems consultant, trainer, and author. We discuss what it looks like to scale Akka Cluster to 10,000 nodes using Rapid, a cluster membership methodology that can speed up cluster membership in some interesting ways.
Duration:00:49:29
How Akka Works - Reliable Message Delivery in Reactive Systems
4/9/2020
In this Lightbend podcast, Akka expert Hugh McKee (Developer Advocate) is questioned by non-Akka expert Oliver White (Chief Storyteller) about some of the new features in the latest release of Akka 2.6.4. We talk about why distributed systems require thinking differently about how message delivery works compared to traditional monolithic systems, and how it all works with Akka to ensure reliable delivery of messages as massive scale across JVMs, nodes, clusters, and even data centers. For...
Duration:01:01:18
Teaching Scala To Computer Science 101 Students
12/11/2019
In this Lightbend podcast, we sit down with Dr. Mark Lewis, professor of computer science at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss the benefits he sees of teaching Scala to introductory computer science students. For more information, see the Lightbend blog: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/teaching-scala
Duration:00:35:29
Akka Roundtable - New Akka Actors, Why Akka Cluster, And More On Akka 2.6
12/10/2019
In this special roundtable conversation about all things Akka, we sit down with notable Akka experts Helena Edelson, Johan Andren, and Manuel Bernhardt, to discuss the recent release of Akka 2.6, which introduces the long-awaited Typed Actor API to overall toolkit. For the videocast version of this, and more Akka resources, see the Lightbend blog: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/akka-fireside-chat-on-new-akka-actors-in-akka-2.6
Duration:00:40:54
What Is CloudState.io?
9/5/2019
In this podcast, Jonas Bonér (CTO) and Viktor Klang (Deputy CTO) of Lightbend talk about CloudState, Lightbend's latest OSS project that provides application state handling in a world of stateless infrastructure. And as Kubernetes continues to dominate this area of cloud native container orchestration, this is just the right time for addressing one of the trickiest areas in distributed computing: managing state. Visit www.cloudstate.io for more information :-)
Duration:00:46:46
What To Know About Kenya’s AI, Start Up, And Tech Culture
8/20/2019
In this Lightbend Podcast, we sit down with Kitawa Wemo (Kiki), co-founder of Mama Ventures, a women-led growth accelerator company based in Nairobi, Kenya. We discuss the IT sector in Kenya and how industrial trends, Artificial Intelligence, and culture play a role in the technology start up space there. You can find out more about Kiki and Mama Ventures at http://www.mamaglobal.co.ke/
Duration:00:33:33
Lightbend Pipelines: The Game Changer For Real-Time Streaming Applications
5/27/2019
In this Lightbend podcast, Dean Wampler, VP of Fast Data Engineering, and Craig Blitz, Senior Product Director, discuss the Why, What, and How of Lightbend Pipelines, the newest module in Lightbend Platform.
Duration:00:19:59
When To Use Play, Lagom, Or Akka HTTP For Your Project
11/27/2018
In this Lightbend podcast, we sit down with Wade Waldron, Microservices Practice Lead at Lightbend, to discuss a question that we hear frequently from Lightbend customers and the OSS community: should we use Play Framework, Lagom Framework, or Akka HTTP for our next application? While all of these tools feature parts of the overall Akka Toolkit under the hood, they are in fact specialized for specific use cases. Wade describes which Lightbend technology is best suited for particular...
Duration:00:28:45
Why Lightbend Joined The Eclipse Foundation’s Jakarta EE Working Group (with Mark Brewer)
5/4/2018
Lightbend CEO Mark Brewer discusses what joining the Eclipse Foundation as a founding member of the Jakarta EE Working Group means for bringing Reactive closer to the traditional Java enterprise landscape.
Duration:00:08:21