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At Lucid we want to monitor the health of our services both individually and in aggregate. Last month we worked on setting up a new downtime dashboard tool. We wanted the following functionality: a record of incidents containing the duration of downtime, the service(s) affected, and information about the cause…

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…

[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…