GGUG Meeting

This month, co-organiser Marcin Erdmann will be delivering a talk. If you'd like to come, please register on the Skills Matter site (https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/7886-ggug-meeting). Hope to see you there!

There's so much more to Ratpack than non-blocking

A lot has been already said about the biggest strength of Ratpack which is that it makes writing non-blocking and thus highly performant and resource-efficient web applications easy. In this talk I will totally ignore that part of Ratpack and explain what I believe to be the features that make the day to day life of a developer more pleasant and productive.

We will look into:

• testability of Ratpack apps

• usefulness of the toolkit when testing other applications

• configuration mechanism and its extensibility

• deploying into the cloud

• development time reloading

• parsers, renderers and services

• the built in http client

• http session implementation

• the "integrate over abstract" strategy

We will talk about why all these things matter even if you don't anticipate the app you're building to ever receive enormous amounts of traffic. There is probably going to be a demo or two and I will try to include as many real life examples from the app I'm currently building with Ratpack as possible.