After creating a few Scala projects, we noticed that we repeated a good chunk of SBT configuration across projects. This caused issues, the kind that occur any time there’s repeated code. In some cases, developers were resolving version and dependency incompatibilities over and over. In others, improvements...

Patrick Galbreath Software Engineer

• scala,
• sbt,
• configuration

- September 23, 2015

It’s a best practice to bypass logging during unit tests. Since the tests will be run by a computer, the output is wasted I/O, and if you needed log output to understand why a test failed, that should be a sign that a new test needs to be written. Logging tests can even make debugging harder by hiding...

Patrick Galbreath Software Engineer

• scala,
• sbt,
• slf4j,
• spark,
• tutorial

- June 4, 2015