– Motivation for switching from .NET to Rails

– It’s a Rails API with a React front-end, first class mobile support is important

– What type of screens does this app have?

– As the CTO, Chad doesn’t get a chance to code as much as he used to

– A few Rails features and gems being used (interactor, wisper and more)

– Third party sites that they integrate with

– Contracting companies are a lot more technical than you might think

– Every photo upload hits the Rails back-end but it’s not processed there

– Millions of jobs are being run through Sidekiq per day and payments

– Spending time on the company admin back-end vs user features

– Postgres (RDS), MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Redis are being used

– The Flipper gem is being used for feature flags

– Docker is being used in development with a transition to using them in production

– How things are currently deployed and where they’re going with AWS Fargate

– From Chef to Ansible with Capistrano handling app deployments

– Ubuntu is their distro of choice

– Moving over to ECS with Fargate and hiring dedicated ops folks

– A run down of which AWS resources they’re using

– The deployment process from development to production

– All developers on the team can use whichever OS they prefer

– Handling backups of all user data

– Logging, error monitoring and alerts

– Best tips? Design patterns are important, so is caching and saying no

– Their AWS bill is about $38,000 a month

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