Articles by Gregg Hernandez

Compile-time Dependency Injection With Play

January 19, 2018 Gregg Hernandez 0 Comments

The Play Framework provides a lot of features, which makes it incredibly easy to scale infrastructure. However, scaling a codebase is more difficult. As developers create new components and more complex relationships, the codebase can become unruly for all. To help with this problem, one can use a dependency injection…

Why I Don’t Regret Moving Our Android App to Scala

July 5, 2017 Gregg Hernandez 4 Comments

At this year’s Google I/O, it was announced that Kotlin would be a first-class language in the Android ecosystem. By the time of the announcement, I had already transitioned roughly 75% of Lucid’s Android app from Kotlin to Scala (and have since moved to 100% Scala). While I’ve been very…

Upgrading From Play Framework 2.3 to Play 2.5

February 22, 2017 Gregg Hernandez 2 Comments

Recently I had the opportunity to upgrade the Play Framework from 2.3 to 2.5 on all of Lucid’s JVM-based services. A lot of the upgrade involved pretty routine things like changing implicit parameters from Lang to Messages or updating uses of play-json to match the new API. However, over the…