This document discusses technologies for building reactive web services and performing data analytics. It describes using NodeJS, NodeRED, Scala, Play Framework, Apache Spark, Docker, Docker Compose, and IBM Bluemix Platform as a Service. An example use case is presented that collects tweets using NodeRED, performs sentiment analysis on tweets with IBM Watson, stores tweets in OpenStack Swift and HDFS, performs retrospective analysis on tweets with Apache Spark, and visualizes results in real-time with Play Framework.