Please help me prepare for a conference.

[Grant]

Hi all

I am the tech lead on a large Scala project over at The Guardian. We are building the mobile version of the site (using Play) which will soon replace the entire website with a single responsive design.

We have a 24/7 operation that serves well over 10 million pages a day ('old' and 'new' sites combined).

I have been asked to do a talk at Ping Conf in late January, with the emphasis being on how we use Play.

It would be great if you could let me know what type of things you would like to hear about if you were sitting in the audience.

Of course I would be more than happy to come give the talk at the LSUG too...

Many thanks

Grant

[Paweł Krupiński]

I would be more interested in how you solved specific technical challenges than how you utilized Play (although the two may not be exclusive).

Also why you chose web over native on mobile and how it compares in UI response times.

     Paweł 

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[bryan hunt]

Well, this is a Scala mailing list, and the topic of web vs native has
been covered ad nauseum in umpteen other forums, and it's a Play
conference => { So I can't see any particular reason not to query him
for specific aspects of Play application development
}

My question

As the Play distribution task produces not a 'fat' aka shaded, or
composed, jar archive, but instead, a zip file, how do you handle the
Continous Integration/Auto deployment pipeline? What SBT magical
incantations do you need to perform?

[Kevin Wright]

We're not talking about an online game here!  It's the guardian, a newspaper; a medium who's user-interface has traditionally been bits of text in rectangles.

Is this not also a pretty good definition of most webpages?

Why would a newspaper therefore want to avoid a perfectly matched medium?  Especially given the added cost and time of native apps, not to mention the difficulty of cross-platform migration, or how long it can take to get updates pushed through the approval process of the fruitier mobile manufacturer.

This isn't rocket surgery :)

[Andy Hicks]

Firstly, I'm never one to turn down a volunteer to do a talk, I'll email directly to see if we can organise something.

Talks that give a personal experience on why they picked a technology (ie Play) and what problems/benefits they had with it normally go down well. Possibly expanding to what other libraries did you use with it, what worked well or didn't. (basically people like to hear when things went wrong especially when they can relate to it and go 'i had a similar problem' )

Hope it goes well and it looks like a fun conference 

[Grant]

Thanks all, great to get some feedback. 

I will definitely add something about our other mobile platforms and how we work with them and differ from them.

Likewise continuous deployment and the devops stuff we do.

Grant