Add the simple Gradle infrastructure necessary to build and test the project

build.gradle

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+plugins {
+    id "com.jfrog.bintray" version "1.0"
+}
+apply plugin: 'groovy'
+apply plugin: 'application'
+
+group = "com.github.lookout"
+description = "A utility for monitoring the delay of Kafka consumers"
+version = '0.1.0-SNAPSHOT'
+mainClassName = 'com.github.lookout.verspaetung.Main'
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//  TESTING
+test {
+    testLogging {
+        /* we want more test failure information, see:
+         *  <http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2013/05/gradle-goodness-show-more-information.html>
+         */
+        exceptionFormat = 'full'
+        events "passed", "skipped", "failed", "standardOut", "standardError"
+    }
+}
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//  DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT
+repositories {
+    jcenter()
+}
+
+dependencies {
+    compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.3.9+'
+
+    compile 'org.apache.curator:curator-client:jar:2.4.0'
+    compile 'org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.10:0.8.1.+'
+
+    testCompile 'org.spockframework:spock-core:0.7-groovy-2.0'
+    testCompile 'cglib:cglib-nodep:2.2.+'
+}
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+
+
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+/* Make sure we run tests before building our package */
+assemble.dependsOn test
+
+bintray {
+    user = project.bintrayUser
+    key = project.bintrayKey
+    publish = true
+    dryRun = false
+    configurations = ['archives']
+
+    pkg {
+        userOrg = 'lookout'
+        repo = 'systems'
+        name = 'verspaetung'
+        labels = []
+
+        version {
+            name = project.version
+            vcsTag = "v${project.version}"
+            desc = project.description
+        }
+    }
+}
+bintrayUpload.dependsOn assemble
+////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

gradle.properties

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+org.gradle.daemon=true
+bintrayUser=
+bintrayKey=

src/main/groovy/com/github/lookout/verspaetung/Main.groovy

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+package com.github.lookout.verspaetung
+