Peter Hilton

Peter Hilton, Erik Bakker, and Francisco Canedo are engineers at Lunatech, a consultancy with Scala and Play expertise. They are contributors to the Play framework.

books by Peter Hilton

Play for Scala

  • October 2013
  • ISBN 9781617290794
  • 328 pages
  • printed in black & white

Play is a Scala web framework with built-in advantages: Scala's strong type system helps deliver bug-free code, and the Akka framework helps achieve hassle-free concurrency and peak performance. Play builds on the web's stateless nature for excellent scalability, and because it is event-based and nonblocking, you'll find it to be great for near real-time applications.

Play for Scala teaches you to build Scala-based web applications using Play 2. It gets you going with a comprehensive overview example. It then explores each facet of a typical Play application by walking through sample code snippets and adding features to a running example. Along the way, you'll deepen your knowledge of Scala and learn to work with tools like Akka.

Written for readers familiar with Scala and web-based application architectures. No knowledge of Play is assumed.