– They support 6.5 million users on the platform which helped creators make $100m+

– There’s 2 parts to the system, the admin for creators and the user experience

– BREAKING NEWS: Rails can scale and it’s working out nicely for them as a monolith

– Turbolinks and Liquid helped their app a lot

– It feels like a Rails app but uses VueJS and InertiaJS on the front-end

– A couple of interesting gems in their Gemfile, including using Fastly

– They have a great relationship with Mux for streaming video

– Approaching the latest stable version of Rails

– 19 Rails engineers are working on the monolithic code base

– Payments are supported with Stripe, PayPal and Authorize.net

– About 10 million emails are sent out every week through SendGrid

– Custom domains for customers and using Heroku with nginx / Let’s Encrypt

– Postgres is the main database along with ClickHouse (billions of events a week)

– What types of events are being logged and how can it be viewed?

– A custom nginx router that sits in front of Heroku

– Reasons for using Heroku and setting up an auto-scaler

– A couple of Heroku add-ons and using New Relic (NOTE: 10 billion rows = 250GB)

– The deployment process from dev to prod (CI, code reviews, GitHub discussions)

– What is ShapeUp which is Basecamp’s methodology around project management

– Backing up user data and more info about ClickHouse

– There’s value in performing soft deletes as long as you really delete it later

– OpsGenie, New Relic and Uptime Robot are used for alerting and being on-call

– Best tips? Follow standards when you can such as using built in Rails features

– You can find Nick on GitHub and Telegram