Articles by Brian Pugh
Abstract Lucidchart is a collaborative diagramming SaaS application. This session’s speakers have been transitioning from a monolithic CakePHP application to a services-oriented RESTful system based solely on Scala. They discuss their decision to ditch PHP and how they ended up with a working set of services. First, they explain their…
Abstract In this session, you learn about Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and why you should consider using it for your applications. You also hear from the makers of Lucidchart, an online diagramming tool, which was originally launched in 2008 on the Amazon EC2 Classic platform. As the user base grew,…
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the Architected Availability blog and is republished with permission from the author One of the most attractive features of Lucidchart is the direct mapping of pixels from screen to page. An essential part of this process is our PDF generator. JSON render data goes…
At Lucidchart, we build killer graphical web applications that push the boundaries of what’s possible in the browser. Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, PHP, MongoDB and MySQL. At Lucidchart, your responsibilities would include working with engineering to create and operate highly available, secure,…
Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published on the Atlassian Confluence blog and is republished below with permission from the author. If you’ve ever worked inside Confluence, you probably know that it has a flexible plugin model that allows third parties to add new functionality and features. Traditionally, creating a…