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In this episode of Running in Production, David Parker talks about buildinga service to subscribe to people with Ruby on Rails and Sapper. It’s hosted onHeroku ($30 / month) and has been up and running since November 2020.David talks about creating an API back-end with Rails, trying out Svelte andSapper, the challenges of scraping names from websites, figuring out and fixingPostgreSQL performance issues, finding a good work / life balance and more.Topics Include 1:11:21 – Find David on Twitter, https://www.programmingtil.com/ and his YouTube channelLinks📄 References https://www.mturk.com/ https://github.com/evanw/esbuild https://www.snowpack.dev/ https://dev.to/svelte-radio/building-listenaddict-with-david-w-parker https://github.com/heroku/heroku-pg-extras http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/ https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology⚙️ Tech Stack rails → ruby → svelte → sapper → cloudflare → honeybadger → logentries → mailgun → new-relic → postgres → redis → vercel → webpack → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/heartcombo/devise https://github.com/waiting-for-dev/devise-jwt https://github.com/yohasebe/engtagger https://github.com/rack/rack-attack https://github.com/rubocop/rubocop https://prettier.io/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.