Reactive development is fueling a new wave of business applications; these apps are event-driven, scalable, resilient and responsive by nature. To help developers build Reactive applications on the JVM, Typesafe has brought together the Play web framework, a runtime called Akka, and the Scala language under a unified platform. The platform is distributed through Typesafe Activator, a tool that includes easy-to-use templates and tutorials designed to accelerate adoption and skill acquisition.