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Matthew Barlocker

Matthew is a software engineer who knows the pain of being oncall. He founded Blue Matador to provide a proactive monitoring tool to oncall engineers.

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How to deploy an app to AWS: Getting started
By Matthew Barlocker on April 21, 2020

Launching a production app onto the cloud is a big task with a ton of tiny sub-tasks, and it can all be pretty overwhelming. We're here for you. We've launched an app ourselves (Blue...

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S3 Endpoint Connectivity in AWS VPC
By Matthew Barlocker on June 4, 2019

Troubleshooting VPC Endpoints with CameronB There are a few, simple things in life I really, truly enjoy: a full breath of air, watching my kids learn and grow, and playing the piano...

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Custom Error Pages in AWS Cloudfront
By Matthew Barlocker on May 9, 2019

How to configure custom error pages for your Cloudfront distribution with Samuell In the last post, Samuell (from the og-aws Slack group) figured out his negative TTL problems in...

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Negative TTL in AWS Cloudfront
By Matthew Barlocker on May 2, 2019

How to configure negative TTLs for your S3-backed Cloudfront distribution with Samuell I’m on the og-aws Slack group, one of the more active groups of AWS developers and cloud...

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Segfaults in Golang with Cgo
By Matthew Barlocker on April 5, 2019

Solving a dying Golang process with Keilan Jackson at Blue Matador I started the new GuardianDevOps service to share my expertise with other engineers. I was thrilled to find an internal...

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Introducing Guardian DevOps
By Matthew Barlocker on March 15, 2019

I started Blue Matador in 2016 to help people like me. Site reliability engineers' and devops engineers' time is in short supply while the demands keep growing. We support an increasing...

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