– Hiring outside contractors to tackle setting up the infrastructure

– Motivation for choosing Strapi, FastAPI, React, Gatsby and more

– Strapi is being used as a headless CMS for the student watching front-end

– Going over how the student watching experience is set up

– Creating a course preview with Fargate using sub-domains and DNS entries

– A couple Gatsby plugins that helped build the site

– A couple of Python libraries to help build out the FastAPI back-end

– Using Cloudflare for streaming the videos and Shaka as the video player

– Stripe and Paddle are being used to handle payments (including VAT)

– About 20k lines of Python and 10k lines of front-end / React code

– Everything is Dockerized, there’s PostgreSQL and an ALB too

– Using Let’s Encrypt and letting course owners hook up custom domain names

– Reasons for choosing AWS and ECS (hosting is about $100 to $150 a month)

– Having a dev (staging) server and production in different regions

– What it’s like coding things up in development and pushing them to production

– The dev experience for using AWS Lambdas and creating internal tooling

– On-boarding new authors (doing something that doesn’t scale but it works now)

– A public service announcement about database migrations

– FastAPI has been working very nicely

– Backing up the database and user generated files

– Using Sentry for tracking errors and getting notified over Slack

– Best tips? Pick a hosting infrastructure that fits your project

– Picking between ECS and EKS was left to the contractor

– Check out https://coursemaker.org/, Chris is on Twitter and LinkedIn too