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Use a simpler hosting provider if you're not already familiar with AWS. Power brings complexity, and your product likely won't benefit from solving infrastructure problems you don'…

Thank you for the encouragement

Students who start by learning Java will learn solid principals which may be applied to Javascript (or any other language). Students who start by learning Javascript won't learn so…

I would recommend starting with SBT templates, and I second the recommendation of Scala for the Impatient. We began working with Scala very slowly, only using it for small internal…

We're starting to develop greenfield APIs in Scala (with Play) rather than PHP (with Laravel) and we've noticed new developers without experience in either language have a surprisi…

Their Elasticsearch type mapping shows they're using the English fulltext analyzer for message content, I'm curious if they're planning on supporting fulltext search for other lang…

We've found JIRA to be the best option for our small (5 person) team. We enjoy the ubiquitous integrations, powerful project management tools and reliability. Keyboard shortcut sup…