Klout had an incredible 2011, and as the end of the year approached I felt so proud to be part of such an amazing team! We accomplished a lot, so the holidays came at a great time; it was a much-needed opportunity for the team to catch a break and have some fun with our [...]
At Klout, we love data and as Dave Mariani, Klout’s VP of Engineering, stated in his latest blog post, we’ve got lots of it! Klout currently uses Hadoop to crunch large volumes of data but what do we do with that data? You already know about the Klout score, but I want to talk about [...]
Capistrano is a Ruby-based deployment tool that you’ve probably heard about unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few years. There are plenty of Capistrano-specific tutorials and blog posts out there so I won’t waste your time with that. BUT, there’s not a lot of information regarding deployment for Play Framework applications and [...]
On August 31st, 2011: I will have the great honor to present our beloved Play Framework at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference here in San Francisco, CA. If you are attending, please feel free to check it out or just stop by to say hello. Thank you Zenexity for the opportunity! I am always excited to help [...]
Some time ago, I was the tech lead for a few very large deployments on the Real Estate market for companies like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Foreclosure.com and HUD. We were running that traditional enterprise Java stack you are probably familiar with—Spring, Hibernate, Solr, etc. It took a few years but we had built a [...]
Guice is a lightweight dependency injection framework developed by Google and it’s a good alternative if you are looking for DI on your Play Framework-based application. Keep in mind that the framework is lightweight but you still need to evaluate your application specifically and decide what should be managed by Guice and what should not. [...]
Play Framework, on its 1.2 release, provides a pretty cool new library (play.libs.F), here’s how you can use it to avoid the billion dollar mistake. For those who don’t know what that is, here’s what Tony Hoare (the inventor of QuickSort) had to say about it: “I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the [...]
Log4Play is a Play! Framework module that provides a log4j appender which publishes log entries to an EventStream. In theory, you can use it from any Java application that uses log4j, but I have only tested it with a Play! Framework application. Log4Play provides an user interface which uses a WebSocket to create a live [...]
This is what Google has to say about it: “Traceur is a compiler that takes Javascript including some new enhancements like classes and generators, and compiles it down to regular Javascript that runs in your browser. Traceur itself is written in Javascript, which means you can host the compiler directly in your pages and compile [...]
My latest open source contribution is Play! Jobs, hosted on the always awesome Github. Play! Jobs is a Web Interface to manage and trigger async jobs running on a Play! Framework application. It also provides a JAX-RS/RESTFul API, exposed with JSON and powered by Play!’s RESTEasy Module. This API is a good start, it might [...]
