Lightbend, formerly known as Typesafe, is bringing microservices-based architectures to Java with its Lagom platform.
Due in early March, Lagom is a microservices framework that lightens the burden of developing these microservices in Java. Built on the Scala functional language, open source Lagom acts as a development environment for managing microservices. APIs initially are provided for Java services, with Scala to follow.
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