I’ve been making the foray into a more continual deployment(ish) model for a personal project of mine, and it’s been interesting investigation traveling more into the realm of devOps and less (pure) coding.

Since I’d LIKE to really get things thing off the ground in the (nearish) future, I’ve been hoping to stay in the Java sandbox – so I’ve been looking at some different options like dedicated tomcat hosting, AWS deployments, until I recently came across Heroku’s Java tutorial. Which has all the ease of a swift download & git clone, plus all of this shinynew coolness.

So interest definitely piqued – I start poking around.

Their example is very lean – a smallish maven project, procfile for deployment, w/ a spark based webservice. Apparently it’s not so much more difficult to deploy a tomcat war service – but the tiny clean code of Spark is hard not to be intrigued by… and so now I’m investigating that. Looks like I’ll have to read up more on Scala (which it’s based on, and I don’t know… yet) – but so sleek when you’re more used to SpringMVC.

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And so – IT BEGINS!