Name: Peter Hilton: Scaling business application development with Play and Scala
Start: 2014-11-13T18:30:00Z
End: 2014-11-13T21:30:00Z
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange

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Scaling business application development with Play and Scala

with

Peter Hilton

Scaling web applications is usually about runtime performance for high-traffic consumer applications. This talk is about a different kind of scaling: architectures that increase development speed for business applications. Using Play and Scala for something that would be easy to build with PHP is like going for a drive in a Rolls Royce: it's so smooth that you don't realise how fast you're going.

Two case studies of commercial projects illustrate using Play and Scala to complete development so easily it feels like cheating. Both projects used Play, Scala, Slick, Bootstrap and minimal JavaScript or front-end development. The lessons learned from these projects show how this architecture makes trade-offs between development cost and complexity. Best of all, there wasn't any PHP at all.

http://www.manning.com/hilton/hilton_cover150.jpg

Peter Hilton is a software developer, writer, speaker, trainer, and musician. Peter’s professional interests are web application development, functional design, agile software development and project management. His speciality is database-backed intranet web application architecture, design and build. He currently builds web applications using Scala, Play Framework and Slick. Peter has presented at several European developer conferences, co-authored ‘Play for Scala’ (Manning Publications) (http://www.manning.com/hilton/) and is a Typesafe certified trainer for ‘Fast Track to Play with Scala’.

We will, as always, also be heading to the Slaughtered Lamb (http://www.theslaughteredlambpub.com/) pub afterwards.

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