– Creating a custom platform lets Jon come up with new blog post / course ideas

– It has roughly 15,000 active users and he built 2 separate platforms initially

– Motivation for using Golang and figuring out when to add new features

– Using Gumroad licenses to handle course access for users

– It’s a monolithic app that was rewritten a few times to be ~15k LOC

– Sweating over hello world requests per second benchmarks isn’t worth it

– Server rendered templates using Golang’s template package + gotchas

– Using TailwindCSS with PostCSS and Vimeo / YouTube for the videos

– Using Golang’s built in web server and SQLite as a primary database

– Only tracking stats about users that Jon plans to act on

– Caddy sits in front of the Golang web server and deals with SSL certificates

– Docker is being used in the React / PostgreSQL code update

– Working with DigitalOcean block storage volumes and Spaces (S3-like object store)

– The single $5 / month server is running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and was set up manually

– The deploy process from development to production

– Spend your innovation tokens wisely

– How Jon assembles his courses with data structures in his source code

– Daily backups of the droplet and how Jon deals with logging / errors / email

– Best tips? Start simple and really stick to it

– Jon is on Twitter at @joncalhoun and check out his site at https://www.calhoun.io/