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In this episode of Running in Production, Dash Winterson talks about buildinga new type of chat app for iOS using Django and Python on the back-end. It’shosted on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk and has been up and running since mid2020.Dash covers creating async compatible code in Django, developing a monolithicback-end that a few developers develop against, investing in the AWS ecosystem,end to end message encryption and the Zen of Python.Topics Include 1:00:53 – You can find Dash on GitHub and TwitterLinks📄 References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers https://www.elastic.co/observability https://python-poetry.org/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ (The Zen of Python)⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → swift → aws → circle-ci → docker → elasticache → nginx → rabbitmq → rds → redis → route53 → sentry → slack → terraform → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework https://grpc.io/docs/languages/python/basics/ https://developer.apple.com/metal/ https://github.com/SimpleJWT/django-rest-framework-simplejwt https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py https://github.com/NoneGG/aredis https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenvSupport 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.