"It’s open source. It’s highly opinionated. Build greenfield microservices and decompose your Java EE monolith like a boss." Lightbend (formerly Typesafe) has come up with their own framework, Lagom, for architecting microservices based systems. With Lagom, Lightbend wants to take up the competition with the Spring Cloud stack. Lagom is built upon Akka and Play and focuses on reactive and message-driven APIs, distributed persistence with Event Sourcing and CQRS and high developer productivity. On the 10th of March a first MVP version has been released with a Java API, the Scala API is being worked on. This workshop acts as an introduction to Lagom during which we will have a look at developing and deploying Lagom microservices. As a warm-up, you could check out the newest blogpost on the JWorks Tech Blog: https://ordina-jworks.github.io/microservices/2016/04/22/Lagom-First-Impressions-and-Initial-Comparison-to-Spring-Cloud.html. Github repo with presentation: https://github.com/yannickdeturck/lagom-shop Blogpost Lagom: First Impressions and Initial Comparison to Spring Cloud: https://ordina-jworks.github.io/microservices/2016/04/22/Lagom-First-Impressions-and-Initial-Comparison-to-Spring-Cloud.html Podcast Lightbend Podcast Ep. 09: Andreas Evers test drives Lagom in comparison with Spring Cloud: https://www.lightbend.com/blog/lightbend-podcast-ep-09-andreas-evers-test-drives-lagom-in-comparison-with-spring-cloud