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In this episode of Running in Production, Kye Russell goes over running aformative school assessment tool for 800+ schools in Australia. It’s built withDjango and it’s been running in production since 2017 on AWS.Kye is the solo developer on the project. It’s a monolith split across 10+Django apps. They’ve gone all-in with a bunch of AWS services and Kye sticks toa number of best practices such as having tests, linting and using services tohelp keep things running smoothly.Topics Include 1:05:15 – Kye has a site with 1 blog post and he’s also on TwitterLinks📄 References https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/iso-27001-faqs/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_performance_management⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → aws → backbone → cloudformation → cloudfront → cloudwatch → docker → nginx → postgres → rds → redis → route53 → s3 → sentry → ses → sns → sqs → ubuntu → webpack → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas https://github.com/numpy/numpy https://github.com/BetterWorks/django-impersonate https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework https://bridgekeeper.leigh.party/ https://github.com/celery/celery https://github.com/unbit/uwsgi https://github.com/psf/black/ https://www.fabfile.org/Support 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.