Articles by Brian Pugh

We recently used KissMetrics to measure the performance of our upcoming homepage test, which I wrote about on the KissMetrics blog. In that post, I mentioned my method of working backwards from your desired results to determine which reports to run. Once you know the latter, you can work out…

Piezo is a system to operate and manage a Quartz Scheduler cluster. It is made up of the Worker and the Admin. One of the main features needed before an official public release of Piezo was the ability to add, edit, and delete jobs from the admin interface. The bulk…

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…

For months now, the business team at Lucidchart has been overhearing discussions of “sharding” from the other end of the office. As a curious tech geek, I wanted to know what was going on. I ended up cornering Brian Pugh, VP of Engineering, and Matthew Barlocker, Chief Architect, to interrogate…

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…

As a follow-up to our previous Scala post about migrating to Scala from a CakePHP setup, Typesafe reached out to us to put together a case study. We are releasing a portion of the interview transcript below to give more specifics about why we decided to make the switch. What…

Today’s post is an interview with our VP of Engineering, Brian Pugh.  As Lucidchart transitions away from PHP,  we thought it might benefit the development community to have one of our in-house experts make the case for Scala as the best solution for web-based applications. What kind of shop are…