– Publicly available since 2015 but it was in development for years beforehand

– Motivation for using Django and Python

– The control panel is mainly a Django app with a React front-end

– Nearly everything is written in Python and Django (over 500k lines of code)

– Using Django Rest Framework and a few other Python libraries

– Using Docker, Celery and PostgreSQL

– Uncovering a bit more on how Divio works and what it supplies developers

– Web servers, custom load balancers and SSL certificates with Let’s Encrypt

– Being vendor neutral when it comes to their hosting infrastructure

– How their server infrastructure is set up

– Using various automation tools such as Ansible, Helm and Terraform

– Deploying to a large amount of servers with a rolling restart strategy

– The deploy process when they roll out new features to their platform

– Database / user media backups along with alerting and monitoring

– Using Stripe for processing payments

– Best tips? Reduce miscommunication and try to use your own services if you can

– Check out https://www.divio.com/