AWS - Dimitry Kudryavtsev

Setting up Ubuntu on AWS

The plain Ubuntu image that is often used with AWS is very under-configured. Here are a few things to change. Timezone This is annoying... the default timezone is set to UTC. sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Swap There is no swap configured, so lets put it on SSD ephemeral driver. By default

Scala

Basic Authentication Filter for Play Framework

I've been using Play framework for a few months and I am really starting to like it. For all its great features and simplicity, it still lacks some of the advanced features. Recently I was facing a problem of enabling basic auth -- some framework have this as a simple

HTTPS

Play Framework Filter for AWS Elastic Load Balancer (forward HTTP to HTTPS)

Here is an example of how to forward HTTP to HTTPS using Play Framework Filter. This is a setup for AWS Elastic Load Balancer. A few points: This is for Play Framework 2.2.x, the API is a bit different for older versions of Play. Scala Filters Play lower-cases