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In this episode of Running in Production, Chris Goodwin talks about buildinga platform with Django to manage 15k+ students and 2.5k+ staff members across29 locations. It’s all hosted on a few on-premises Windows servers and has beenup and running since 2017.Chris covers evolving a solution from Excel sheets, working with a largemonolithic Django code base, being a Microsoft shop and the importance of testsand logging.Topics Include 59:02 – You can find Chris on GitHub, Twitter, Twitch (dev stream) and InstagramLinks📄 References https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → vue → apache → bootstrap → jquery → mssql → slack → windows → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework https://github.com/select2/select2 https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-djangoSupport 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.