Reactive Web Applications

Chapter 10. Deploying reactive Play applications

This chapter covers

• Preparing a Play application for production deployment
• Setting up a continuous integration server and running integration tests with Selenium
• Deploying a Play application to the Clever Cloud PaaS and to your own server

One of the most critical aspects of building a reactive web application is deploying it correctly. If, for example, you deploy the application on a traditional application container, it may not have the capability to scale in and out automatically, hence losing the elastic aspect of a reactive application. It’s therefore important to be well aware of what happens with the application once deployed and whether it is implemented in such a way that it can ...