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In this episode of Running in Production, Ian Davidson goes over building adata sharing service using Phoenix and Elixir. It’s using Live View too. At itspeak the site received a spike of 10k+ requests in a day and it’s hosted on a$20 / month DigitalOcean server.Ian talks about quickly building the app, reacting quickly to add userrequested features, using DigitalOcean for the first time, some pitfalls ofusing Live View / websockets when it comes to configuring nginx and more.Topics Include 11:13 – It’s an open source monolithic code base sitting in 1 git repo on GitHub 37:34 – Check out the site at https://textdb.dev/Links📄 References https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23948234 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZvmYaFkNJI (Real-time Twitter clone Live View demo) https://applitools.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/pasted-image-0.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine) https://github.com/artilleryio/artillery⚙️ Tech Stack phoenix → elixir → digitalocean → dnsimple → lets-encrypt → nginx → open-source → postgres → ubuntu → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_viewSupport 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.