excludedJars in assembly <<= (fullClasspath in assembly) map { cp =>
      val excludes = Set(
        "junit-4.5.jar", // We shouldn't need JUnit
        "jsp-api-2.1-6.1.14.jar",
        "jsp-2.1-6.1.14.jar",
        "jasper-compiler-5.5.12.jar",
        "minlog-1.2.jar", // Otherwise causes conflicts with Kyro (which bundles it)
        "janino-2.5.16.jar", // Janino includes a broken signature, and is not needed anyway
        "commons-beanutils-core-1.8.0.jar", // Clash with each other and with commons-collections
        "commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar",      // "
        "hadoop-tools-0.20.2.jar",
        "guava-14.0.1.jar", // conflict spark-network-common_2.10-1.3.0.jar
        "jcl-over-slf4j-1.7.10.jar", //conflict commons-logging-1.1.3.jar
        "hadoop-yarn-api-2.2.0.jar",
        "bigtable-protos-0.3.0.jar", //conflict grpc-core-proto-0.0.3.jar
        "datastore-v1-protos-1.0.1.jar" //conflict grpc-core-proto-0.0.3.jar
        "appengine-api-1.0-sdk-1.9.34.jar",
        "guava-jdk5-17.0.jar"
      )
      cp filter { jar => excludes(jar.data.getName) }
    },

    mergeStrategy in assembly <<= (mergeStrategy in assembly) {
      (old) => {
        case x if x.contains("UnusedStubClass.class") => MergeStrategy.first
        case x if x.endsWith("project.clj") => MergeStrategy.discard // Leiningen build files
        case x if x.startsWith("META-INF") => MergeStrategy.discard // More bumf
        case x if x.endsWith(".html") => MergeStrategy.discard

        case x if x.startsWith("com/google/cloud/bigtable/") => MergeStrategy.last
        case x if x.startsWith("com/google/longrunning/") => MergeStrategy.last
        case x if x.startsWith("com/google/rpc/") => MergeStrategy.last
        case x if x.startsWith("com/google/type/") => MergeStrategy.last
        case x if x.startsWith("google/protobuf/") => MergeStrategy.last

        case x => old(x)
      }
    }