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In this episode of Running in Production, Barton Ip talks us throughbuilding a custom CRM to help care for the elderly using Django. They are runningon AWS with ECS and the site has been up and running since early 2019.Barton talks about hiring contractors when needed, splitting logic across 40+Django apps, heavily using Celery, incrementally improving their infrastructureover time and more.Topics Include 1:22:06 – You can find Barton’s software development company at https://initialise.io/Links📄 References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Web_Token https://aws.amazon.com/athena/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → vue → acm → cloudflare → cloudwatch → codedeploy → docker → ecs → mandrill → nginx → postgres → rds → s3 → sentry → slack → travis-ci → webpack → 🛠 Libraries Used https://pandas.pydata.org/ https://numpy.org/ https://github.com/celery/celery https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi https://github.com/psf/blackSupport 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.