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In this episode of Running in Production, Colin McFaul goes over usingDjango to build a social hiring platform for the food and beverage industry.It was in development for 9 months before it went live in early 2020. It’shosted on Heroku.Colin talks about building 2 separate apps and keeping the web app as amonolithic app with ~42k LOC, but it’s broken up with Django apps.Elasticsearch is used to power an auto-complete search feature. Billing isn’timplemented yet but it’s currently in development with Stripe.Topics Include 43:23 – Check out https://www.ndustrylink.comLinks⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → docker → elasticsearch → heroku → papertrail → postgres → redis → s3 → sendgrid → sentry → stripe → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light https://github.com/celery/celery https://github.com/joke2k/django-environSupport 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.