diff --git a/examples/detailed_example.py b/examples/detailed_example.py
index aaca6fd1..2f66006a 100644
--- a/examples/detailed_example.py
+++ b/examples/detailed_example.py
@@ -17,8 +17,17 @@ app = Sanic(name=__name__)
 logger = None
 
 
+@app.middleware("request")
+async def log_uri(request):
+    # Simple middleware to log the URI endpoint that was called
+    logger.info("URI called: {0}".format(request.url))
+
+
 @app.middleware("request")
 async def attach_db_connectors(request):
+    # We will check to see if our redis pool has been created
+    # If you have access to the app object, you can set app.config directly
+    # If you don't have access to the app object, you can use request.app
     if not hasattr(request.app.config, "REDIS"):
         logger.info("Setting up connection to Redis Cache")
         request.app.config.REDIS = await aioredis.create_pool((app.config.REDIS_HOST, int(app.config.REDIS_PORT)),
@@ -26,6 +35,7 @@ async def attach_db_connectors(request):
                                                               maxsize=int(app.config.REDIS_MAXPOOL),
                                                               password=app.config.REDIS_PASS)
     # Just put the db objects in the request for easier access
+    logger.info("Passing pool to request object")
     request["redis"] = request.app.config.REDIS
 
 
@@ -40,7 +50,6 @@ async def access_state(request, user_id):
         # Then state object is not in redis
         logger.critical("Unable to find user_data in cache.")
         return sanic.response.HTTPResponse({"msg": "User state not found"}, status=404)
-
     except aioredis.ProtocolError:
         logger.critical("Unable to connect to state cache")
         return sanic.response.HTTPResponse({"msg": "Internal Server Error"}, status=500)
@@ -49,13 +58,14 @@ async def access_state(request, user_id):
 @app.route("/state/<user_id>/push", methods=["POST"])
 async def set_state(request, user_id):
     try:
+        # Pull a connection from the pool
         with await request["redis"] as redis_conn:
             # Set the value in cache to your new value
             await redis_conn.set(user_id, json.dumps(request.json), expire=1800)
             logger.info("Successfully retrieved from cache")
             return sanic.response.HTTPResponse({"msg": "Successfully pushed state to cache"})
     except aioredis.ProtocolError:
-        logger.critical("UNable to connect to state cache")
+        logger.critical("Unable to connect to state cache")
         return sanic.response.HTTPResponse({"msg": "Interal Server Error"}, status=500)
 
 
@@ -64,33 +74,36 @@ def configure():
     env_vars = [os.environ.get(v, None) for v in ENV_VARS]
     if not all(env_vars):
         # Send back environment variables that were not set
-        return False, [ENV_VARS[i] for i, flag in env_vars if not flag]
+        return False, ", ".join([ENV_VARS[i] for i, flag in env_vars if not flag])
     else:
+        # Add all the env vars to our app config
         app.config.update({k: v for k, v in zip(ENV_VARS, env_vars)})
         setup_logging()
-        logging.info("Configuraiton complete")
-    return True, []
+    return True, None
+
 
 def setup_logging():
     logging_format = "[%(asctime)s] %(process)d-%(levelname)s "
     logging_format += "%(module)s::%(funcName)s():l%(lineno)d: "
     logging_format += "%(message)s"
 
-    print(app.config.APP_LOGFILE)
     logging.basicConfig(
         filename=app.config.APP_LOGFILE,
         format=logging_format,
-        level=logging.DEBUG
-    )
+        level=logging.DEBUG)
 
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    result, missing = configure()
-    logger = logging.getLogger()
+
+def main(result, missing):
     if result:
         try:
             app.run(host="0.0.0.0", port=8080, debug=True)
         except:
-            logger.critical("User killed server. Closing")
+            logging.critical("User killed server. Closing")
     else:
-        need_string = ", ".join(missing)
-        logger.critical("Unable to start. Missing environment variables [{0}]".format(need_string))
+        logging.critical("Unable to start. Missing environment variables [{0}]".format(missing))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    result, missing = configure()
+    logger = logging.getLogger()
+    main(result, missing)