Running in Production: Recent Episodes
Nick Janetakis - Full stack developer
Hear about how folks are running their web apps in production. We'll cover tech choices, why they chose them, lessons learned and more.
Filipe Névola goes over building a Meteor hosting platform using Meteor, Node and Go. It's hosted on AWS and has been up since 2015.
Chad Wilken goes over building a service that contractors use to help them communicate with their crew and more. It's been up since 2014.
Michael Lynch goes over building a hardware device to remote control your server. It's been available since mid 2020.
Nick Savrov goes over building a platform to help content creators with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and has been up since 2014.
PJ Murray goes over creating a customer research app with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and has been running in production since mid-2020.
Josh Kinabrew goes over building an AI driven invoice system with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and AWS. It's been up since 2013.
CJ Avilla goes over creating a fund raising with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and has been running in production since 2015.
Nick Janetakis goes over building a podcast site with Jekyll and Ruby. It's hosted on DigitalOcean and has been up and running since 2019.
Jason Swett goes over creating a medical app with Rails. It's hosted on AWS using Kubernetes and has been up and running since 2019.
Vlad Radulescu goes over creating a game directory site with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on AWS and has up and running since 2014.
Dieter Lunn goes over building a job board site for school bus drivers using Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on DigitalOcean with HatchBox.
Matthias Viehweger goes over building a service to help organize groups of people with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted with OpenShift.
Kristian Dupont talks about building a SAAS app access control service with Koa and Node. It's mostly hosted on Heroku.
Andy Ide goes over building a horse SAAS app with Django and Python. It's hosted on a single Linode server.
Karl Roos talks about building a B2B news platform with Rails, Node and Python. It's hosted AWS using Elastic Beanstalk.
Matt Oliver goes over building a chat platform with Akka, Scala and React Native. It's hosted on DigitalOcean with Kubernetes.
Maciej Delmanowski goes over managing 40+ servers and 200+ VMs with Ansible. It's been an ongoing project he's worked on since 2007.
Adrian Marin goes over building a custom Rails admin framework and gem. It's hosted on Heroku.
Przemek Matylla talks about building an image processing API with C, Python and Node. It's hosted on bare metal servers.
Chris Samiullah goes over building a video course platform with FastAPI, Strapi and Gatsby. It's hosted on ECS and various AWS resources.
Eduardo Messuti talks about building a status page and monitoring service with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
Jon Perl goes over building an automated testing service with Node and React. It's hosted on Netlify, Vercel, Azure and DigitalOcean.
David Parker talks about building a service to subscribe to people with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on Heroku.
Ege Ersoz goes over building a project management service with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on Gigalixir.
Jake Lazaroff talks about building a video rendering service with Express and Node. It's hosted on a few DigitalOcean servers.
Utsav Shah goes over building Dropbox with Pylons, Python, Rust and Go. It's mostly hosted on their own datacenters across 1000+ servers.
Nate Rush goes over building a JupyterLab extension with Python. The managed Jupyter Lab instances run on a Kubernetes cluster on EKS.
Tigran Nazaryan goes over building a WordPress hosting platform with Laravel, Python and Node. It's hosted on GCP and OVH.
Ian Eyberg talks about Unikernels and how he built one with C. Their site is built with Golang and hosted on GCP / their own datacenter.
Cole Simmons goes over building a service for commercial real estate professionals using Flask and Python. It's hosted on GCP using GKE.
Jason Charnes talks about building a video course hosting platform with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on Heroku.
Sean Callaway goes over building an infrastructure management app with Django and Python. It's mostly hosted on premesis.
Nick Hnatiw talks about building a password manager with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku and DigitalOcean.
Mubs goes over building his podcast episode finding app with Laravel and PHP. It's hosted on DigitalOcean using Forge.
Jonathan Adly talks about building a gift giving service with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku.
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Anthony Eden talks about building a domain management service with Rails, Go and Erlang. It's hosted on bare metal, AWS and Heroku.
Justin Duke goes over building an email newsletter sending service with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku and AWS.
Denis Stepanenko talks about building a financial planning service with Django and Python. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
Ian Davidson goes over building a data sharing service with Phoenix and Elixir using Live View. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
Dash Winterson talks about building a new type of iOS chat app using Django and Python on the back-end. It's hosted on AWS.
Nidal Alhariri goes over building a CRM tool with Flask and Python. It's hosted on a few cloud providers such as AWS and Linode.
Jared Chung talks about building a community platform with Django and Python. It's hosted on a number of AWS resources.
Sascha Wolf goes over building an internal tool with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on AWS in a Kubernetes cluster through EKS.
Jerod Santo & Gerhard Lazu go over building a news and podcast platform with Phoenix / Elixir. It's hosted on Linode's Kubernetes Engine.
Joel Griffith goes over building Browserless with Express, Node and Docker. It's hosted on about 1,000+ DigitalOcean servers.
Parker Selbert talks about how he handles the licensing site for his Oban project using Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on Heroku.
Ben Dominguez goes over building a video course platform to learn Python with Flask. It's hosted on Heroku's hobby tier.
Kshitij Sinha goes over building his job finding platform with Django. It's hosted on a single t2 micro AWS instance using the free tier.
Kye Russell talks us through a school assessment tool built with Django and Python. It's running on AWS.
Anand Kulkarni covers his app builder and deployer platform that's written in Django. It's hosted across 1,000+ Heroku Dynos.
Daniele Procida goes over building a platform that helps teams deploy web apps using Django. It's hosted on multiple cloud providers.
Barton Ip goes over building a custom CRM using Django and Python. They've gone with AWS / ECS but are mostly cloud flexible.
Dan Purcell talks about building a high traffic e-commerce store using Django and Python. It's hosted on 12+ DigitalOcean web servers.
Galen Rice walks us through building an inventory management system with Django and Python. It's hosted on a bare metal server.
Umar Hansa goes over building his video course platform with Express. It's hosted on a single $10 / month DigitalOcean server.
Dalton Polhill goes over building a text based course platform with Django and Python. It's hosted on AWS with a single EC2 instance.
Paul Cappaert talks about building a leaderboard for flight simulators with Django and Python. It's all hosted on a single Heroku dyno.
Dan Kolbman goes over building an internal tool to process Genomic data using Django and Python. It's all hosted on AWS.
Colin McFaul talks about building a hiring platform with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku with 2 Dynos.
Antonin Grêlé goes over using Django to build a gift card service focused on eco-friendly products. It's hosted on PythonAnywhere.
Clemens Wolff and Shaun Bathgate go over using Flask and an Orange Pi to build a hardware appliance. The server is hosted on Azure.
John Debs goes over building a video platform with Django to help get you stronger and more flexible. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
Chris Goodwin talks about building a platform with Django to manage 15k+ students across 29 schools. It's all running on Windows.
Dave Merwin goes over building a service to help protect folks using Django. Everything is hosted on a single DigitalOcean server.
Jon Calhoun talks about building his video course platform using Golang. It's hosted on a single $5 / month DigitalOcean server.
Harry Moreno goes over building a platform that lets you find things to do in NYC. The back-end is in Django and it's hosted on Heroku.
Jesse Hunt talks about building a site to view 3D scans of cars with Django. It's hosted on 2 Heroku hobby Dynos.
Cory Zue goes over building a service to create and design place cards for events using Django. It's hosted on a single Linode server.
Mark Miscavage talks about building a site to display hundreds of thousands of searchable products with Django. It's hosted on AWS.
Austin Lewis goes over replacing an Excel sheet with a custom app written in Django. It's hosted on the AWS free tier.
Brendon Wood talks about building a portfolio management platform with Django. It has 3k+ active users and is hosted on DigitalOcean.
Ben Sassoon talks about building a simple static site. The core of it is 6 lines of JavaScript and it received 10+ million visitors.
Sean Parsons goes over building a video course marketplace with Django. It has about 100k+ lines of code and is hosted on AWS.
Stuart Kelly goes over creating an insurance company with Django. They've issued over 290 million hours of insurance so far. It's all hosted on AWS.
Phil Gyford goes over building a site around Samuel Pepys with Django. It gets around 150k+ monthly page views and is hosted on Heroku.
Dylan Jhaveri goes over building a video service with Phoenix, Elixir, Go and more. It's hosted on both AWS and GCP with Kubernetes.
Amit Jain goes over building an auctioning service that uses deep learning with Flask and Python. It's hosted on AWS Fargate.
Saad Malik talks about building a free cover letter analysis tool that uses NLP with Flask and Python. It's deployed on Google App Engine.
Todd Gardner talks about building a SAAS app with .NET and how it's hosted on dedicated hardware with OVH.
Peter Kazarinoff goes over deploying Jupyter Hub on DigitalOcean with Ansible and open sourced all of his work.
Brett Kromkamp talks about building an open source knowledge management tool with Flask. It's deployed on a single server using Linode.
Ty Cooper talks about building an e-commerce shop with Flask and goes over how it's hosted with Firebase and PythonAnywhere.
Scott Johnson goes over building a Covid-19 case tracking site with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted using Hatchbox.io on DigitalOcean.
Seth Blacks goes over building a webcomic and analytics service with Flask and goes over how it's deployed to a Docker Swarm cluster.
Fransico Barcena talks about building a food order processing system with Python and Flask. It's hosted on a single DigitalOcean server.
Adam Conrad goes over building and deploying a Slack App with Phoenix and Elixir. It's all hosted on Gigalixir for about $50 / month.
Nick Gregory walks us through building his service with Flask. It's hosted on dedicated hardware running in a colo with Kubernetes.
Eric Meadows-Jönsson talks us through building and deploying the Hex.pm site and surrounding services. It's hosted on GCP with Kubernetes.
Henry Popp goes over building a service with Phoenix and Elixir. It's deployed on GCP with a self managed Kubernetes cluster.
Julien Blanchard talks about building a service with Rails, Phoenix and .NET Core. It's deployed on AWS EKS and Elastic Beanstalk.
Charley Stran goes over building and deploying a government API platform with Ruby on Rails / React and its deployed on AWS GovCloud.
Jack Slingerland talks us through building and deploying a platform with Express that currently handles 2.5 million requests a day.
Ian Butler talks us through building a document collaboration tool using Phoenix and Elixir. Everything is hosted on AWS.
Marcelo Lebre goes over rebuilding a remote job search platform using Phoenix and Elixir. A few EC2 instances handle 100k+ daily requests.
Chris Oliver goes over how he built his video platform using Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on a single $20 / month DigitalOcean server.
Chase Granberry goes over handling billions of log events per month with Phoenix and Elixir. It's all running on Google Cloud (GCP).
Gareth Thomas talks about scaling a school management system with Flask to handle 65k / reqs per second. It's deployed on AWS Fargate.
Dave Blakey goes over how their load balancing service handles 33k+ events / second across a 100+ server Kubernetes cluster on AWS and DO.
Junaid Kabani goes over his tech choices for building a custom Shopify app. It's all hosted on a $20 a month DigitalOcean server.
Jamie Taylor peels back the details on running a .NET Core web application in production. Everything is hosted for free on Azure.
Lane Wagner walks us through building and deploying an Electron app that has a Serverless component written in Golang. It's all on AWS.
Stetson Blake shares his tech choices for building a SAAS app with Flask. It's all hosted on a single AWS EC2 instance.
Dan Bader goes over how he built Real Python from scratch with Django. It serves 4 million+ page views a month and is hosted on Heroku.
Mark goes over how he built his platform using Phoenix and Elixir. It's all hosted on a $10 a month DigitalOcean server.
Andrew Brown talks about using Ruby on Rails to build an AWS certificate training platform called Exam Pro. He is all-in with AWS.
Gabriel Robertson talks about using Phoenix and Elixir to build and deploy an internal web app that's being used at a medical University.
A podcast where developers and engineers can talk about what tech stacks they are using in production and why they chose what they did.