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Yesterday I was choosing a monitoring system for our production app. I was looking at NewRelic, Datadog, and ScoutAPM. Unfortunately, ScoutAPM doesn't support JVM applications. It looks great though. I've eventually chosen NewRelic due to ease of integration. It's quite straightforward if you know

When building a web application on Playframework, there is no good way to integrate a JS framework like Svelte. The only way is to run Play and run the npm watch in 2 separate terminals. One is to build the backend code, and the other is to build the frontend

Yesterday I've spent 5 hours debugging a strange issue when using the Algolia's Scala client with Playframework during local development. That is, the period where auto-reloading happens when code is changed. For a long time (~9 months), we've experienced a DNS error "flakily&

In my previous post on parallelising tests in SBT, it doesn't work well in practice or, at least, on CircleCI. The main disadvantage is that it doesn't balance the tests by their run time. Balancing tests by their run time would reduce the total time significantly.

SBT, the official build tool for Scala, is a very complex build tool. It's one of those things that makes me wonder if I am stupid or the tool's complexity surpasses average human intelligence. I've done a few things with SBT (e.g. printing