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In this episode of Running in Production, Andy Ide goes over building aSAAS app for horses with Django and Python. It’s hosted on a single Linodeserver and has been running in production since May 2021.Andy talks about learning Django while building his app, using Django Unicorn,creating a Django monolith that’s broken up with Django apps, outsourcingsetting up a server, the importance of having a good testing team and more.Andy was kind enough to give listeners of this podcast 20% off for life if youuse promo code RUNNING20 when signing up, thatincludes signing up for free since it carries over to a paid plan.Topics Include 1:13:37 – Check out HorseRecords on Facebook and Andy’s Django BlogLinks📄 References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stud_farm https://djangochat.com/ https://djangoandy.com/2021/05/14/integrating-django-rest-framework-and-retool/ https://djangoandy.com/2021/05/02/what-i-learned-in-the-first-2-days-of-launching-my-saas-startup/⚙️ Tech Stack django → python → cloudflare → jquery → linode → nginx → postgres → retool → sentry → stripe → systemd → ubuntu → uptime-robot → 🛠 Libraries Used https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth https://github.com/select2/select2 https://www.django-rest-framework.org/ https://github.com/matthewwithanm/django-imagekit https://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot https://github.com/django-hijack/django-hijack https://www.django-unicorn.com/ https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn https://github.com/pypa/pipenv https://github.com/django-dbbackup/django-dbbackupSupport 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.