Join this session for an overview of what's exciting about Scala, Akka, and Play!, including how to deploy these technologies in the cloud. Keep the battle-tested performance of the Java Virtual Machine, keep using your existing Java code, but jump ahead in developer productivity. Scala offers a modern, developer-friendly way to code for the JVM. Akka implements the Actor model for event-driven parallel computation. The Play! Framework brings Rails-style simplicity and convention-over-configuration to the JVM. Combined with cloud deployment, these technologies are a beautiful and practical way to create applications.