I love Heroku for quickly deploying and testing your applications. The free usage tier makes it no cost for simple applications, and the Git Push To Deploy mechanism is a great way to test your build environment isn’t using cached …

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If DropWizard excels at RESTful webservices, then the Play Framework is often the counterpart which provides an HTML front-end. Although it’s got both Java and Scala support, the Scala support seems to be more active. Here’s an introduction without using …

Scala Play from scratch Read more »

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Okay, so I need to build proper RPMs rather than using FPM to create them. Our build toolchain uses SBT to build everything, and utilises sbt-assembly to generate a single executable JAR. Which we then wrap up in an RPM …

Using SBT to create an RPM (detour including Vagrant) Read more »

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