Articles by matthew

Play! 2.3 Template Improvements

August 5, 2014 matthew 0 Comments

My thanks go out to Grant Klopper from The Guardian. Last week, he validated a change I made to the Play! Framework back in December. After upgrading from Play! 2.2 to 2.3, Grant noticed dramatic changes in response times and memory – both for the better. The changes were so awesome that Grant…

What to do when your Amazon EBS fails (GitHub link inside)

March 8, 2013 matthew 1 Comment

[Editor’s note: This post was originally published on the Architected Availability blog and is republished with permission from the author] I am currently employed as the chief architect at Lucidchart. In my spare time (literally) I am also the ops guy. All of our servers are running on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. Using the…