AWS - Dimitry Kudryavtsev

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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

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

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 [http://www.