Code Trips & Tips

Adventures in developing distributed systems in Java and Python

Building and Installing Apache Mesos

April 3, 2015

I have just published a gist that shows how to build and install Apache Mesos on a Ubuntu 14.04 VM or physical box. The Getting started instructions are a good start (well…) but are somewhat incomplete and currently look a bit outdated (I plan to fix them soon): however, the outcome has been that I … More Building and Installing Apache Mesos

Using ScalaTest with Play 2 Framework (Scala)

October 23, 2014

The default testing framework in Play 2 is specs2, however I prefer to use ScalaTest as I quite like it and I’m more familiar with it. Setting up the sbt project and configuration to make it work, though, turned out to be unnecessarily tricky and cumbersome. Here is eventually what I did to make it … More Using ScalaTest with Play 2 Framework (Scala)