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In this episode of Running in Production, Jonathan Adly goes over building agift giving service with Django and Python. It’s hosted on Heroku’s hobby tierand has been up and running since November 2020.Jonathan talks about shipping his first app, using Celery for background jobs,handling non-standard payment patterns with Stripe, not getting caught up withwhat everyone is saying to use for tech choices and trying to develop featuresbased on using the app as a customer.Topics Include 39:37 – You can find Jonathan on Twitter and check out https://joyful.giftsLinks📄 References https://openai.com/ https://www.gethalfmoon.com/docs/introduction/ https://diveintodocker.com⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → docker → heroku → namecheap → postgres → redis → sentry → ses → stripe → uptime-robot → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/dj-stripe/dj-stripe https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow https://github.com/furious-luke/django-address https://gunicorn.org/Support 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.