XebiaLabs Product Developer

Assessment 

by Žilvinas Kučinskas

Technology stack

• Programming language: Scala
  • ​Play framework
  • Mockito + Specs2 library for testing
  • Anorm(A Not Object Relational Mapper)
  • Database schema evolutions
• Database
  • H2 in memory database for development
  • PostgreSQL for production
• Deployment
  • Heroku
    • H2 in memory database for development
    • PostgreSQL for production

Why Play?

• Restful by default
• Json is a first class citizen
• Built-in testing tools
• Powerful console and build tools
• Do not need to restart to see changes in the code
• Responsive

Why H2 and PosgreSQL

• Same schema
• H2 very fast for development
• ACID database suits very well for e-commerce