The Linux Foundation recently announced the launch of the Reactive Foundation. Its founding members are Alibaba, Lightbend, Pivotal and Netifi. So what exactly is this?

Is your organization growing rapidly? Anticipating challenges with scale? It might be time to move your organization to a polylithic application structure with reactive microservices.

If you’ve never heard of reactive programming — or you’ve heard of it, but don’t quite know what it means — you aren’t alone. Reactive coding has earned its reputation as an intriguing ...

Hence, Lightbend touts its ability to deliver “reactive” microservices as a way of harnessing streaming applications. The updated data platform unveiled Tuesday (Sept. 11) at the Strata conference in ...