“Tools of the Trade”
Dominik Dorn
dominik@dominikdorn.com
www.playframework.wien

Dominik Dorn
Freelance Software
Engineer & “Dev-Lead”
Java 8 & Scala
enthusiast
PlayFramework lover
Akka delivery guy
@domdorn

Agenda
Reminder: These are (my) opinions!
Take what you like, ignore the rest!
Development Tools
Code Quality Tools
Project Management Tools
Analytics, Logging & Monitoring
Libraries, Frameworks, etc.

Development Tools

IntelliJ Idea (Ultimate)

jRebel

Docker
Docker
Docker-Compose
Docker-Swarm
Deployment/Management
through CI Server

TeamCity

Build Tools
Gradle
SBT
Maven
please ditch: Ant, Makefiles, manual shell-scripts

Git + Giter8
“Giter8 is a command line tool to generate files and
directories from templates published on github or any
other Git repository.”
https://github.com/foundweekends/giter8
See the Giter8 documentation for the full story.

Artefact Management
Sonatype Nexus 3 OSS (Maven, Docker, NPM/bower,
nuget, …)
jFrog Artifactory (Maven, Ivy, Docker, NPM/bower, …)
jFrog BinTray (hosted Artifactory + distribution pipeline)

NGINX
Frontend-Webserver
SSL Termination
HTTP 2
Caching, Gzip, etc.
Docker: nginx-proxy

ngrok
“Secure tunnels to
localhost”
”I want to expose
a local server
behind a NAT or
firewall to the
internet.”

Code Quality

Source code quality
Checkstyle
Scalastyle
Gradle-Quality-Plugin
Findbugs

Source code quality
Sonarqube
Structure 101
Overops (takipi) / xRebel
Checker-Framework
Code review: Stash, Jetbrains Upsource, Github, …

Project Management
Youtrack / Jira / (Redmine) / (Github Issues)
Confluence / (Redmine) / (Github Wiki)
Slack / HipChat / “Franz”

Analytics, Logging,
Monitoring
Snowplow “event data pipeline”
ELK-Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Grafana “metrics dashboards”
Kamon (esp. for PlayFramework and Akka)
Dynatrace “application monitoring”

Libraries + Frameworks

PlayFramework + Akka
Foundations of the Lightbend Stack
Highly scalable, reactive, message driven

Spring Boot
Builds on the SpringFramework
Quick-Prototyping
Lots of integration options (e.g. to Netflix OSS)

Jackson “fasterxml”
Handles JSON, YAML, XML, ….
Integrations for all kinds of Datatypes
(Java8, Jodatime, …)
Easy to use, easy to extend

MapStruct
Code-Generator
Creates mappers for your Datatypes
Annotation driven

MapStruct

immutables
Code generator
Creates immutable (=thread safe) classes (and
additionally mutable ones) out of your interfaces
Builder-DSL, many features…

immutables

javaslang.io
Functional Data-Types for Java8
Pattern Matching
Random Property-based Testing
Circuit-Breaker implementation
Jackson-Ready
Functional Collection Types

parseq / play-parseq

parseq / play-parseq

parseq / play-parseq

–Alfred Mercier
“What we learn with pleasure,
we never forget.”
Thank you!