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In this episode of Running in Production, Joel Griffith goes over building aservice to run headless browsers using Express, Node and Docker. It’s been upand running since late 2017 and runs on just under 1,000 DigitalOcean servers.Joel talks about handling millions of browser sessions, breaking the app upinto a few pieces, using Redis as a primary database, using Stripe, creating acustom Node CLI for helping automate deployment tasks and so much more.Topics Include 1:14:00 – The core tool is open source on GitHub 1:29:58 – Joel is on GitHub, checkout https://www.browserless.io/ along with @browserlessLinks📄 References https://developers.google.com/web/tools/puppeteer https://github.com/tj?tab=repositories https://openresty.org/en/ https://www.nginx.com/products/nginx-amplify/⚙️ Tech Stack express → node → preact → digitalocean → docker → graphql → lets-encrypt → namecheap → netlify → nginx → redis → sendgrid → stripe → ubuntu → websockets → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/http-party/node-http-proxy https://github.com/patriksimek/vm2 https://github.com/dokku/dokkuSupport 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.