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...Since GraphQL has a type system, the server defines a schema that the client can query using the introspection API. This provides the client with a set of possibilities. After the client got this information and decided which parts of the data it needs, it is able to describe its data requirements in form of a GraphQL query. An important aspect of GraphQL is that it’s completely backend agnostic.

Scrooge is a thrift code generator written in Scala, which currently generates code for Scala, Java, Cocoa, Android, and Lua. It’s meant to be a replacement for the Apache thrift code generator and generates conforming, binary-compatible codecs by building on top of libthrift. Since Scala is API-compatible with Java, you can use the apache thrift code generator to generate Java files and use them from within Scala, but the generated code uses Java collections and mutable “bean” classes,...

...The core philosophy behind Spray is that it should act as a “library” for integration and HTTP layers, not as a full application framework—it gives you the building blocks to handle HTTP and REST but doesn’t impose heavy structure. It includes modules for low-level HTTP I/O, routing, client and server APIs, HTTP model (requests/responses), (un)marshalling, servlet adapters, and testing utilities. Its routing DSL offers expressive combinators for defining HTTP endpoints, and its testkit allows route logic to be tested in isolation (even without spinning up actors). It was popular in earlier Scala/Akka stacks but has since been superseded by Akka HTTP as the maintained successor.

This repository hosts a major part of The Guardian’s web application stack, historically the Play Framework–based code that serves the newspaper’s content at scale. It orchestrates rendering of articles, live blogs, and interactive pieces while integrating advertising, analytics, identity, and paywall-adjacent features. The codebase coordinates with upstream content APIs, image services, and media platforms to compose pages dynamically with caching and edge-friendly layouts. Operationally,...