Chaotic Snippets

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

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…

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…