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In this episode of Running in Production, Jerod Santo and Gerhard Lazu go over their news and podcast platform which is using Phoenix and Elixir.It was rewritten in Phoenix back in 2015 and it runs on Linode’s KubernetesEngine across a 3 node cluster.Jerod and Gerhard talk about building a context-less Phoenix app, usingTurbolinks, caching, transitioning to using Kubernetes, automating as much aspossible while focusing on patterns that work for small teams and so much more.Topics Include 13:43 – It’s an open source monolithic app in 1 git repo and it doesn’t use contexts 1:31:57 – Gerhard has a personal site, Jerod is on Twitter & check out https://changelog.com/Links📄 References https://twitter.com/adamstac https://github.com/edeliver/edeliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hd0FPd47II (3h+ podcast on Changelog’s history) https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/blob/master/mix.exs https://skaffold.dev/ https://changelog.com/posts/why-we-chose-turbolinks https://changelog.com/posts/the-new-changelog-setup-for-2020 https://www.lastpass.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTt-jdDEWAw (epic Predator handshake scene) https://github.com/derailed/k9s https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com⚙️ Tech Stack phoenix → elixir → circle-ci → docker → fastly → grafana → kubernetes → lets-encrypt → linode → nginx → pingdom → postgres → prometheus → s3 → turbolinks → webpack → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/quantum-elixir/quantum-core https://github.com/stavro/arc https://github.com/thoughtbot/bamboo https://github.com/thoughtbot/ex_machina https://github.com/asaaki/cmark.ex https://github.com/drewolson/scrivener https://github.com/sasa1977/con_cacheSupport 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.