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Setting up a Play Framework application on RedHat's Openshift

Play framework is an interesting web development option, using Netty directly as a web server, providing a basic MVC framework to build web applications on. A Here's how you marry them both.. The documentation out there ( git quick starts  ) seem to be outdated. But, its simple really and truly DIY.. So, thought I would let people know. 1. Install Play  2.0  Spin up the play server and make sure something renders on the localhost. 2. Open an account with openshift.com and create a DIY application When you checkout the git projects, by default, you get the following directory structure with a Ruby script to serve up a index.html page. $ ls -a   .  ..  .git  .openshift  README  diy  misc $ ls diy   logs   index.html   testrubyserver.rb $ ls .openshift/action_hooks   build   deploy   post_deploy   pre_build   start   stop 3. Package your Play app $ play stage $ target/start Now, copy target folder to $ cp -rf target $OPENSHIFT_PROJECT_GIT_REPO/diy/ Thro

Thoughts On Adding Spatial Indexing to Voldemort

This weekend, I set out to explore something that has always been a daemon running at the back of my head. What would it mean to add Spatial Indexing support to Voldemort , given that Voldemort supports a pluggable storage layer.. Would it fit well with the existing Voldemort server architecture? Or would it create a frankenstein freak show where two systems essentially exist side by side under one codebase... Let's explore.. Basic Idea The 50000 ft blueprint goes like this. Implement a new Storage Engine on top Postgres sql (Sorry innoDB, you don't have true spatial indexes yet and Postgres is kick ass) Implement a new smart partitioning layer that maps a given geolocation to a subset of servers in the cluster (There are a few ways to do this. But this needs to be done to get an efficient solution. I don't believe in naive spraying of results to all servers) Support "geolocation" as a new standard key serializer type in Voldemort. The values will sti