Whois & Analysis for typesafe.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 an open-source 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 Scala IDE for Eclipse, the Slick database query, and access library for Scala and the sbt build tool.

Lightbend also provides training, consulting and commercial support on the platform.

Akka is a free and open-source toolkit and runtime simplifying the construction of concurrent and distributed applications on the JVM.

Akka supports multiple programming models for concurrency, but it emphasizes actor-based concurrency, with inspiration drawn from Erlang.

Cloud computing is a type of Internet-based computing that provides shared computer processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand.

It is a model for enabling ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., computer networks, servers, storage, applications and services), which can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort.

Cloud computing and storage solutions provide users and enterprises with various capabilities to store and process their data in either privately owned, or third-party data centers that may be located far from the user–ranging in distance from across a city to across the world.

Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economy of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over an electricity network.

A runtime system, also called run-time system, primarily implements portions of an execution model.

This is in contrast to the runtime lifecycle phase of a program, during which the runtime system is in operation.

Most languages have some form of runtime system, which implements control over the order in which work that was specified in terms of the language gets performed.

Over the years, the meaning of the term 'runtime system' has been expanded to include nearly any behaviors that are dynamically determined during execution.

Computing platform means in general sense, where any piece of software is executed.

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other application, as long as the code is executed in it.