1. Play-oriented web
development
Daniel Leon
Optymyze
12th of October 2013

3. Presentation highlights
• What is Play ?
• Demo
• Conclusions
• Q&A

4. What is Play ?

5. Play framework strengths
• Developer friendly
• Highly scalable
• Ready for modern web & mobile

6. Developer friendly
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Type safety all the way
IDE support
Fast deployment cycle
Built-in testing tools
Powerful console & build tools

7. Highly scalable
Stateless web tier
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Non-blocking I/O
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Powerful concurrent and distributed
processing model due to integration
with Akka
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8. Modern web&mobile ready
Restful by default
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Asset compiler for LESS, CofeeScript
etc
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WebSocket, Comet, Server-Side
Event
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Extensive classic and NoSQL
database support
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9. Who uses Play ?

10. Key notions
• Sbt
• Typesafe

11. SBT
• Build management tool
• Manages multiple compilers easy
– Scala
– Java
– Less & Coffee script
– Routes and templates
• Plugin based

12. Typesafe
Reactive platform
http://www.reactivemanifesto.org

13. Demo time

14. Conclusions
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Developer friendly
High performance
User friendly
And most of all ... FUN

15. Reminder
http://www.scala-lang.org/
http://www.playframework.com/

16. Q&A

17. Please fill in your
evaluation form
Play oriented web development
Daniel Leon
Optymyze
12th of October 2013