Nathan Alderson
Gradle Summit
Palo Alto · June 22 - 23, 2017
Software Engineer at ADTRAN
Nathan is a software engineer at ADTRAN in a cloud platforms group where he helps design and build a buzzword-compatible, horizontally-scalable, highly-available microservices platform for network management systems. Since its inception nearly two years ago, the project has utilized Gradle as a build tool for Scala services and libraries, as well as some other tasks. In addition to some in-house plugins, Nathan is the author of the recently open-sourced Scala Multi-Version Plugin for Gradle.
Presentations
Introducing the Scala Multi-Version Plugin (and some lessons learned)
With Scala, updates from one major version to the next are source compatible, but are not binary compatible. To accommodate this, most Scala libraries will publish artifacts compiled for multiple versions of Scala. Until recently, however, there was no easy way to accomplish this with Gradle. This talk will introduce a recently open-sourced Gradle plugin to achieve this. We will then use the plugin to explore some interesting challenges that arose while developing the plugin, and the approaches that were taken to solve them. Topics will include: using GradleBuild tasks to perform recursive Gradle builds, modifying dependency resolution strategies, manipulating POM files, and more.