Managing User uploaded Files

Managing User uploaded Files

File Management Almost all web apps use user uploaded files. From documents that need to be connected with some models in a database, to images as user’s avatars. The more users your service has, the more files your server will accumulate. If you neglect file...
Play in Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster

Play in Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster

Play in the Google Cloud Kubernetes cluster Kubernetes is a container orchestration system. It allows for easy deployment, management and scaling of containerized applications. Its key feature is the ability to create clusters of identical nodes of a single...
How to deploy a Play application to AWS

How to deploy a Play application to AWS

How to deploy a Play application to AWS Amazon Web Services – AWS – is one of the most popular Cloud platforms. It hosts over 200 unique services including docker container hosting, load balancer, database hosting, file storage. CloudCaptain –...
How to test a Playframework App

How to test a Playframework App

Almost every software developer appreciates a well written unit and functional tests, but for some reason most of us don’t like writing them. Test driven development as everything has its pros and cons, but even if you’re against TDD, tests are a great way...
How to deploy a Play server with Docker Compose and Postgres

How to deploy a Play server with Docker Compose and Postgres

One of the easiest ways of deploying pretty much any application is by using Docker Container. There is a plethora of hosting sites that offer container hosting, or you can choose to host your service on your own, using a dedicated server or VPS. Manually maintaining...
Saving large files with PlayFramework

Saving large files with PlayFramework

Almost every server application sooner or later requires some form of processing of user uploaded files. While files are small and in small quantities you can get away with saving them to the server’s RAM first. Problem starts when they become bigger than your...