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At FortyTwo, we’ve been using the SecureSocial library for authentication. This allows users to log in with social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook and lets us access information from those networks in our application.

TL;DR: github.com/kifi/json-annotation. Also, sign up for Kifi.

Scala macros can be a great tool to reduce boilerplate code. For example, Play provides macros for easily creating Json serializers. Given a case class, it is…

This post follows up on the Scala Slick Database Drivers & Type-Safing Session Concurrency post where we discussed the abstraction layer we’re implementing on top of the slick driver and db access. In the post we mention we’re using DatabaseDialect…

In our last post, we explained how we use Guice with Akka Actors. You’ll notice there were a few components involved, including the ActorBuilder, which really just creates an ActorRef using our ActorSystem and a Provider for the actor. The ActorBuilder makes it possible to create…

This is the first in a three part series about our database access layer and patterns we’ve adopted (part 2: Clean and re-usable Slick modules). We use Slick to type-check and build our queries, but many of these ideas may help with other libraries.

A few months ago, we explained how we used Guice with Play! for easy dependency injection, in order to make our code better organized and easier to test. More recently, we…

At FortyTwo, we rely on a main database hosted on RDS to store Kifi‘s critical user data. For instance, every keep (a user-page pair) is saved in there after the Kifi browser extension that sits on your computer sent…