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In this episode of Running in Production, Mark Miscavage talks about buildinga site to display hundreds of thousands of full text searchable products forLionel. The site is powered by Django with a custom open source CMS. It’sbeen up and running since 2015 and is hosted on AWS.The agency Mark worked at developed 100+ Django sites, including sites for theAvatar movie along with Hunger Games.Topics Include 3:43 – Building a custom CMS / Django admin and open sourcing the Scarlet library 33:53 – Writing a custom open source framework called red-fab-deploy to deploy the app 1:00:24 – You can find Mark on Twitter @chick3ndinn3rLinks📄 References https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → ember → aws → cloudfront → elasticache → nginx → postgres → rds → redis → route53 → s3 → sentry → solr → ubuntu → webpack → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack https://gunicorn.org/Support 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.