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In this episode of Running in Production, Francisco Barcena goes over building an internalfood order processing system for the city of Los Angeles, CA with Flask andPython. It’s hosted on a single DigitalOcean server and has been up and runningsince 2016.Francisco talks about developing a freelance project for a client as a solodeveloper, scraping the USDA’s site, working with Flask-SocketIO to create areal-time ordering service and getting everything up and running on a singleserver without using Docker, CI or configuration management tools.Topics Include 30:40 – Find a bunch of info about Francisco on his personal site (also built in Flask)Links📄 References https://scrapy.org/ https://www.usda.gov/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_regression https://www.postgresql.org/ https://nginx.org/en/ https://github.com/certbot/certbot⚙️ Tech Stack flask → python → digitalocean → lets-encrypt → nginx → postgres → ubuntu → websockets → 🛠 Libraries Used https://www.chartjs.org/ https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-SocketIO https://github.com/thadeusb/flask-cache https://gunicorn.org/ https://www.sqlalchemy.org/ https://github.com/mattupstate/flask-mailSupport the ShowThis episode does not have a sponsor and this podcast is a labor of love. If you want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my courses or suggest one to a friend. Dive into Docker is a video course that takes you from not knowing what Docker isto being able to confidently use Docker and Docker Compose for your own apps.Long gone are the days of "but it works on my machine!". A bunch of followalong labs are included. Build a SAAS App with Flask is a video course where we build a realworld SAAS app that accepts payments, has a custom admin, includes high testcoverage and goes over how to implement and apply 50+ common web app features.There's over 20+ hours of video.