-
How To Use Hosted Nexus With Sbt
•
If you work in an organization or doing your personal project sooner or latter you’re gonna need an artifact server. And few reasons this would be you want to host your build artifacts but not make those available to the public, you want to have a proxy server to use when you download your artifacts, this is particularly helpful when you have more than one person working on the project or you simply have some jars that aren’t in maven central or other public repos and you want to host those so you can list them as dependencies from your build tool.
read more -
Sbt Plugins I Like To Use
•
Sbt is really awesome and there are plugins that make it even better. I thought I would write a post about the plugins I’m using and why I like to use those.
read more -
Continuous Integration For Scala Projects
•
So what is continuous integration, at the very high level it’s about hey is the code in a good state, no matter by how many people code is being updated, how often code is being changed or of how many building blocks project consists of. When you start working on a feature you’re gonna branch of mainline and start introducing changes. At some point when you find things are broken now you have to spend time to see if it’s because of your changes or project was already in a bad state. And when you find out that it was already in a bad state you would want to start tracing. A who introduced the breaking changes and B when. So to avoid the head each and frustration what you really want to know is if project is in a good state before you even start working on it. One option would be to compile the code before you start changing it. But if code compiles is it enough? Oh you you also wanna know if unit tests are passing. But is this enough? Check for compiler warnings? Style violations? Code coverage? What if you run code coverage and it shows that it’s 85%, does it mean everything is good, what if code coverage was 95% last week and code without proper code coverage got committed and code coverage dropped (do you remember what code coverage was last week, can you even find out without going back in commits and running coverage reports on those commits.) are you sure you want to introduce your changes on top of those changes? Let’s make it even more complex, what if the project consists of many other projects and the project you’re working on brings all those dependencies tougher. Maybe you should checkout all those dependency projects and see if those are in a good state also. Let’s make it even more complex, what if the project isn’t just set of projects that get bundled into one big project. What if the whole code base consists of many micro services that talk to each other via some form of PRC. OK maybe you can manage to do all this to know if code is in a good state before you introduce your changes what about the point B I brought earlier about when code broke, because longer it was in that states longer it’s gonna take to trace the breaking change and longer to fix. Can you go and check every single project every time someone makes a commit to make sure that commit is good? Well actually you can, you just need a build server. So all those points I was bringing was about whatever your integration is it should be continuous and it’s continuous if it runs after somebody changes something (or maybe before is a better option?☺ I’ll get to this later.)
read more -
Running Akka Applications
•
With akka becoming more and more popular, akka kernel being deprecated, docker rocking the word, Typesafe releasing ConductR and more folks getting to scala, I wanted to write a post about how to run akka applications. Akka applications aren’t servlet applications java developers are used to, normally those are main class applications in a jar file and have other jars as dependencies. So it’s no-brainer that we can just use java command and no container like tomcat or jetty is need. I will cover how to run in development while iterating on a task. How to run it in development and tunnel the port and let others point to your code before you even go to production or pre production environment and how to run it inside a docker container in production and pre production environments. Unforunatly I didn’t get hold of ConductR to try it myself, so I won’t be writing about it in this post. Btw, most of this should be to relevant other scala/java main class applications not only akka and akka http applications.
read more -
Moving My Activator Templates To Gitter8
•
I had few activater templates for a while now that I use to start different types of Scala projects. I open sourced those and made available via Github and activator website. There was lots of traction from the community and since Activator is deprecated now I decided to take those and convert to Gitter8 templates so
read moresbt newcan be used to start projects. The new templates work with sbt 1 and all the dependencies, including sbt plugins in the projects, are upgraded.