play! framework

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…

Play! 2.3 Template Improvements

August 5, 2014 matthew 0 Comments

My thanks go out to Grant Klopper from The Guardian. Last week, he validated a change I made to the Play! Framework back in December. After upgrading from Play! 2.2 to 2.3, Grant noticed dramatic changes in response times and memory – both for the better. The changes were so awesome that Grant…

Performant Database Access with Relate

June 17, 2014 Mark Siebert 7 Comments

At Lucid, we deal with data—a LOT of it. Ever since we migrated our code to the Play! Framework, we’ve been leveraging the Anorm database access library provided by the framework. Being able to write our own SQL queries gave us a lot more control than using an ORM, and…

Using the @repeat helper in Play!

March 3, 2014 Brian Pugh 1 Comment

Piezo is a system to operate and manage a Quartz Scheduler cluster. It is made up of the Worker and the Admin. One of the main features needed before an official public release of Piezo was the ability to add, edit, and delete jobs from the admin interface. The bulk…