Blog Posts

• Understanding JVM soft references for great good (and building a cache)
• Working dir for tests between sbt and intellij for subprojects
• Calculating the checksum (hash/md5/sha1) of directories in Scala
• Open sourcing our specialized TinkerGraph with 70% memory reduction and strict schema validation
• Introduction to code generation with scalameta
• Http Basic Auth as a composable Action in Playframework
• Overriding dependencies in a test with playframework and guice
• Tag a whole ScalaTest suite (update for Java 8)
• Calculating the shortest path with Gremlin-Scala
• Calling Java 8 functions from Scala
• Super simple dependency injection in Scala
• Elasticsearch case study for realtime analytics
• Execute Scala Futures in serial one after the other (non-blocking)
• Create generic Scala collections with CanBuildFrom
• Akka Work Pulling Pattern to prevent mailbox overflow, throttle and distribute work
• scala.util.Try - chain to handle all success and error cases
• Callback lifter and exception driven development
• Akka TestKit addition: expect some messages, ignore others
• Akka work-pulling pattern to throttle work
• Create your custom Scala REPL
• Fun with Scala's new Reflection API (2.10)
• Maven: skip GPG sign process
• Selecting top k items from a list efficiently in Java / Groovy
• Python Mock: how to assert a substring of logger output
• Eclipse, PyDev and virtualenv
• Performance testing with insights into JaxWS client scalability