Ratpack
Ratpack: A Java 8 Web Framework for Independent Thinkers | Voxxed
This interview with project lead developer @ldaley offers a sneak peak into the project motivation and a glimpse into how Luke Daley sees the project:
the combination of great performance with just enough support for building your app how you want to build it
Zero to Ratpack - Blog of Kyle Boon
@kyleboon began a series of introductory posts (Zero to Ratpack) during the summer. Introduction and Part 2.
If you are following the tutorial today, check out the code in the github repo. The post's code is a bit outdated.
Ask him in twitter to continue the series!. I have no credibility to ask him, since I write a "weekly" newsletter which sometimes takes 20 days between issues.
Ratpack 1.0 Launches Aiming to make Asynchronous Programming Easier on the JVM
@charleshumble post explains how Ratpack tackles asynchrony. If you want to understand how Ratpack differentiates from a common Servlet application this is the post to read.
This posts references @danveloper talk Ratpack at SpringOne2GX 2015.
Ratpack v1.0.0 - Dan Woods
Around the Ratpack 1.0.0 release, @danveloper published a retrospective about how he has seen the toolkit's grown from its inception to the 1.0.0 release.
He is writing a book titled Learning Ratpack, Simple, Lean, and Powerful Web Applications . You can already purchase the book in early release form. I've done it myself.
Building Ratpack applications on Bluemix
@andyvdh7 shows how to deploy a Ratpack app to Bluemix. However, it does not detail how to setup and configure the bluemix account.
Moreover I discovered that a Ratpack app will run on 160MB of memory. He sets up a 256MB instance. If the memory footprint is this low, it will make wonders towards Ratpack's adoption.
Faster deploys for JVM apps to Heroku
Ratpack apps are easily deployed on Heroku. Ratpack.io is such an app. GitHub source based build and deploy strategy was too slow for the Ratpack project due to size and requirements. @ldaley shows how they have integrated Snap-CI to speed the deployment.
Ratpacked: Groovy DSL Code Completion In IntelliJ IDEA
@mrhaki shows how to use the @DelegateTo annotation in a Ratpack project to squeeze IntellJ's autocomplete Juice.
The Ratpack Edition
Ratpack 1.0.0 shipped a couple of weeks ago. I've personally not used Ratpack. However I am aware of the momentum the project is gaining and its promise of scalability. Thus I want to learn about it. This edition of Groovy Calamari is special since it is focused just in one toolkit. I hope it helps you to get better Ratpack's understanding as it did for me.
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