– Building a beta version of the site during a 4 day hackathon

– Motivation for picking Django and Python

– Leaning heavily on the built in Django admin and other libraries

– Mostly server rendered Django templates with a touch of React

– It’s mostly a monolithic app but it has a few services pulled out

– PostgreSQL is the main database and Celery / Redis is heavily used

– gunicorn + Caddy, Route53 for DNS and a load balancer, Docker end to end

– Tens of thousands of lines of code, ~3,500 files and good test coverage

– Webpack is being used to handle the front-end assets (SASS and ES6 JS)

– Static files are cached on CloudFront and in general development is pretty hard

– RDS is being used and the production web app has 4 vCPUs & 16GB of RAM on EC2

– New Relic, PagerDuty and Sentry are being used for monitoring and alerts

– There’s no configuration management tools being used to set up the EC2 server

– Going from developing a feature to deploying it into production

– RDS is configured for backups and there’s a lot of backing up in general

– Storing ~200k questions each having 10-20 DB rows + 120k registered users

– Their AWS bill fluctuates between $2,000 and $3,000 USD per month

– Best tips? There’s a lot to learn out there but focus on keeping your users happy

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