Stanislaus Madueke

Lightweight, no-fuss project management...just what the Doctor ordered :-) Trello

I used Redis to store subscriber preferences (such as language), for which a database would have been overkill. Redis

I initially used MySQL as the database backend for the service. Thanks to JDBC (and some discipline), it was easy to swap in Oracle during deployment. MySQL

I used Play to build a configuration UI for the service, which let you create and manage the menus (a hierarchical tree of options and actions). Play

Scala, Akka and Spray (which became Akka-Http) provided the building blocks for the menu service. Akka's actors and finite-state machine were a natural way to model a USSD menu (a series of stateful interactions between a subscriber and the USSD gateway). Scala