@badkins I finally was able to watch your talk. (Most of 17 Oct I was providing orientation flights to CAP cadets.) Anyway, I loved it. I’m definitely going to try it out. I can think of a half dozen applications I can use it for right away. Not sure if I need dockerization now or anytime soon, but I appreciate you’ve made this easy to set up for AWS/EC2, that fits some of my use cases immediately. The only thing “missing” is the JavaScript side of things. In the Scala world there is Scala.js, which is pretty awesome. In particular I like how they’ve made it a priority to make Ajax calls under the covers and bulletproof. http://www.lihaoyi.com/hands-on-scala-js/

I also just watched and enjoyed Sage Gerard’s talk about xiden. (Look like he’s not on Slack though.) I love reproducible builds. My colleagues at BBN & I did something similar (but with large databasets) 20 years ago, to avoid recomputation, which was a theme of my mentor Ken Anderson’s Scheme life. Since I was just mentioning Li Haoyi above, he has a build tool for the Scala (and Java) worlds called Mill, which is his response to SBT (simple build tool). SBT is very powerful but can be complex and takes some learning. If you don’t need SBT, Mill can usually get you going with much less fuss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6uThGxx-18

Thanks for the kind words. I need to spin up a new Amazon EC2 server, so that should give me the opportunity to finalize the setup script and get that into the repo. I have a <https://github.com/lojic/sysadmin_tools/blob/master/cloud-setup.bash|script I’ve used> but it has a lot of cruft I’d like to clean up first.

I’ll try it out from a naive user’s perspective and let you know what happens.