Lightbend technology allows developers to quickly build data-centric applications that can handle the most complex, distributed applications and streaming data streams. Lightbend is used by companies around the world to address the problems of distributed, real-time data to support their most important business initiatives. Akka Platform is a platform that makes it easy for businesses build, deploy, manage, and maintain large-scale applications that support digitally transformational initiatives. Reactive microservices are a way to accelerate time-to-value, reduce infrastructure costs, and lower cloud costs. They take full advantage the distributed nature cloud and are highly efficient, resilient to failure, and able to operate at any scale. Native support for encryption, data destruction, TLS enforcement and compliance with GDPR. Framework to quickly build, deploy and manage streaming data pipelines.