So long, and thanks for all the t-shirts
In 2009, I joined LinkedIn as a Software Engineer. 5 years, 25 t-shirts, 50 hackdays, 4000 employees, several hundred million members, a billion dollars in reve...
The Ultimate Guide to Getting Started with the Play Framework
Are you trying to get started with the Play Framework? Struggling to wrap your head around Futures, SBT, Scala, Functional Programming, or Iteratees? Then you've ...
Maxing out at 50 concurrent connections with Play or Netty on OS X? Here's a fix.
I recently ran across a strange problem with the Play Framework and Netty: on Linux, my Play app could easily handle thousands of concurrent connections; on OS...
Composable and Streamable Play Apps
A blog post I wrote on the LinkedIn Engineering Blog about Composable and Streamable Play Apps::
A thousand lives
The other day, I was going through some old files on my computer, and stumbled across a paper that blew my mind. It was a technical write up of an experiment wi...
What is the current webstack LinkedIn uses?
My answer on Quora to What is the current webstack LinkedIn uses?:
In which ways do you use the play framework in your company?
My answer on Quora to In which ways do you use the play framework in your company?:
Play, Scala, and Iteratees vs. Node.js, JavaScript, and Socket.io
The Play Framework takes a functional programming approach to stream processing (e.g. Comet, chunked responses, WebSockets) by using abstractions called Iterate...
The 10x developer is NOT a myth
Update: you can find a Spanish translation of this blog post here.
10 recipes for turning imperative Java code into functional Scala code
At LinkedIn, we’ve started to use the Play Framework, which supports not only Java, but also Scala. Many teams have opted to write their apps in Scala, so I’ve...