– A little bit about how the service works

– Training an AI to process invoice items

– Thousands of clients and the motivation to use Ruby on Rails

– Using AWS Rekognition’s Textract and SageMaker for AI and ML decisions

– It takes about 2 minutes to get an initial result after uploading an invoice

– The mobile version is served through a responsive web application

– They’re using the latest stable Rails release with good test coverage

– Going over a few types of Sidekiq Pro driven background jobs that are running

– Action Mailbox was a huge win for them, it’s also a monolithic code base

– They’re using Heroku’s CI service

– Good old Sprockets is used for the asset pipeline at the moment

– Josh really likes Postgres, Redis is also being used quite a bit

– What it’s like to work with QuickBook’s imports and exports

– Most things are hosted on Heroku (2 worker and web Dynos)

– Papertrail, Sentry and Mailgun are being used

– Before sending emails most agriculture folks were faxing paperwork

– The deploy process from development to production

– Terraform is used to spin up the infrastructure, even on Heroku

– Avoiding real customer data when copying data from prod to dev

– Currently there’s no external monitoring checking the site for up-time

– Best tips? Don’t worry about being perfect, get something out there

– They’re hiring, you can email Josh and they’re on Twitter too