Integration Testing With CircleCI 2.0 and Docker Compose

Running integration tests in Circle 2.0 against a Docker Compose stack turned out to be much more complicated than I had hoped and certainly much more complex than it used to be. Some of these issues are probably easily resolved by…

SQS FIFO Queues and SNS Topics

This is a pretty short story, I expected this to “just work” and it turns out that it is not in fact supported. You can set it all up and it looks like it should work, but no messages will ever be published to the queue.

Cloud Formation and FIFO Queues

When trying to setup a FIFO queue using Amazon’s Cloud Formation I ran into an interesting bug related to their auto generated names. FIFO queues have a requirement that the queue name end with .fifo . However, the general recommendation in the Cloud Formation documentation…

SBT 0.13.15 and CircleCI

UPDATE: There is a workaround where you cat /dev/null and pipe it to sbt. It’s pretty lame, but will at least unblock anyone having this issue.

cat /dev/null | sbt compile