In this episode of Running in Production, Filipe Névola goes over building ahosting platform for Meteor apps. It’s hosted on AWS with ECS and has beenrunning in production since 2015. Filipe talks about building critical services with Go, using Meteor to buildfront-end web dashboards, the importance of monitoring, using Recurly forsubscription paym…

In this episode of Running in Production, Chad Wilken goes over buildinga service to help contractors document their job and communicate with theircrew. It’s been up since 2014. Chad talks about handling ~800k photo uploads per day, building a Rails APIdriven app, creating a great mobile experience with React Native, handlingmillions of daily Sidek…

In this episode of Running in Production, Michael Lynch goes over building ahardware device that lets you remote control your server without installingany software. It’s been available since mid-2020. Michael talks about how it works, using Ansible to provision a Raspberry Pi,Using Flask with SocketIO, rendering 30 frames per second at 1080p with u…

In this episode of Running in Production, Nick Savrov goes over building aplatform to help content creators build a business with Ruby on Rails. It’shosted on Heroku and has been up and running in production since 2014. Nick talks about supporting 6.5 million users, using Turbolinks, having a 19developer team working on a monolithic app, sending mi…

In this episode of Running in Production, PJ Murray goes over buildinga customer research app with Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted on Heroku and has beenup and running since mid-2020. PJ talks about using feature flags, integrating Stripe with Jumpstart Pro,building out a React front-end, the value of having business metrics, takingdata security very se…

In this episode of Running in Production, Josh Kinabrew goes over buildingan AI driven invoice categorization system using Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted onHeroku and AWS and has been up and running since 2013. Josh talks about training an AI system to scan and break down pictures ofinvoices, managing thousands of clients, using the latest stable versi…

In this episode of Running in Production, CJ Avilla goes over buildinga fund raising platform with Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted on Heroku and has beenrunning in production since 2015. CJ talks about rewriting an app with Rails, processing $30 million dollars ofdonations, using Stripe, maintaining a Rails 4.2 app, carefully sending outbulk emails, ens…

In this episode of Running in Production, Nick Janetakis goes over building apodcast site with Jekyll and Ruby. It’s hosted on a single DigitalOcean serverand has been running in production since October 2019. Nick talks about what it takes to release an episode, keeping things simple,developing a custom audio player, hosting a bunch of sites on a …

In this episode of Running in Production, Jason Swett goes over buildingan internal medical record system with Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted on AWS usingKubernetes and it’s been up and running since 2019. Jason talks about replacing a few 3rd party services with 1 custom solution,using custom generators, embracing PORO, transitioning from Ansible andi…

In this episode of Running in Production, Vlad Radulescu goes over creating agame directory site with Ruby on Rails. It’s hosted on AWS and has been upand running since 2014. Vlad talks about having thousands of active users, interfacing with a few gameplatform APIs, running millions of Sidekiq jobs, storing 10+ billion databaserecords, keeping thi…

In this episode of Running in Production, Dieter Lunn goes over building ajob board site for school bus drivers and aides using Ruby on Rails. It’shosted on DigitalOcean with HatchBox. Dieter talks about using a bit of StimulusJS to add pins to a map, keepingthings simple with a monolithic app, working on the code base with anotherdeveloper, upgrad…

In this episode of Running in Production, Matthias Viehweger goes over building aservice to help organize groups of people. It’s built with Ruby on Rails and ishosted on OpenShift with Kubernetes. It’s been running in production since 2012. Matthias talks about building a Rails Engine abstraction, creating a multi-repomonolith, using Sphinx for ful…

In this episode of Running in Production, Kristian Dupont goes over building aSAAS app to manage access control to your existing SAAS subscriptions. It’sbuilt with Koa, Node and React and is hosted on Heroku. It’s been running inproduction since 2018. Kristian talks about validating his idea before coding it, really leveragingcode linting tools, th…

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, outsour…

In this episode of Running in Production, Karl Roos goes over buildinga B2B news and data platform with Rails, Node and Python. It’s hosted on AWSusing Elastic Beanstalk and has been up and running since 2014. Karl talks about writing a Rails API back-end, scraping 400+ sites, executing500k+ daily jobs, using a bunch of AWS resources, what it’s lik…

In this episode of Running in Production, Matt Oliver goes over buildinga chat platform with Akka, Scala and React Native. It’s hosted on DigitalOceanwith Kubernetes and has been running in production since 2013. Matt talks about rewriting his app a few times, handling tens of thousands ofnightly TV shows, going all-in with Kubernetes, using Terraf…

In this episode of Running in Production, Maciej Delmanowski talks about buildingout a 40+ server / 200+ VM data center with Ansible. It’s hosted on premises,he’s been working on it all since 2007 and started using Ansible in 2013. Maciej talks about automating everything with Ansible, being a sysadmin forover a decade, how he picked Debian, splitt…

In this episode of Running in Production, Adrian Marin goes over building aRuby on Rails admin framework. It’s hosted on Heroku and has been availablesince late 2020. Adrian talks about building a Rails engine, using Stripe Checkout, building theadmin out with Hotwire Turbo, using View Component, creating a very automatedCI / CD pipeline to publish…

In this episode of Running in Production, Przemek Matylla talks about buildingan image processing and optimization API with mostly C, Python and Node. It’shosted on bare metal servers in a data center and has been running inproduction since 2019. Przemek talks about handling 20-50 million+ daily API calls, how they’re usingC, image detection techni…

In this episode of Running in Production, Chris Samiullah goes over building avideo course hosting platform with FastAPI, Strapi and Gatsby. It’s hosted onECS along with a bunch of AWS resources. It’s been running in production sinceearly 2021. Chris talks about combining a Gatsby static site with FastAPI, using AWSFargate, streaming videos with Cl…

In this episode of Running in Production, Eduardo Messuti talks about buildinga status page and monitoring service with Phoenix and Elixir. It’s hosted onDigitalOcean and Heroku. It’s been up and running since 2017. Eduardo talks about upgrading their code base to use Phoenix contexts, usingOban, creating a notification abstraction, going all-in wi…

In this episode of Running in Production, Jon Perl goes over building aservice that automates creating browser tests for your web apps. It’s builtwith Node and React and is hosted on Netlify, Vercel, Azure Containers andDigitalOcean. It’s been running in production since 2019. Jon talks about creating an open source tool and turning it into a SAAS …

In this episode of Running in Production, David Parker talks about buildinga service to subscribe to people with Ruby on Rails and Sapper. It’s hosted onHeroku ($30 / month) and has been up and running since November 2020. David talks about creating an API back-end with Rails, trying out Svelte andSapper, the challenges of scraping names from websi…

In this episode of Running in Production, Ege Ersoz goes over building aproject management service using Phoenix and Elixir. It runs on Gigalixir alongwith Heroku and has been up and running since early 2019. Ege talks about using Elixir for the last few years, upgrading to use Phoenixcontexts, building a monolithic app with an API back-end / VueJS…

In this episode of Running in Production, Jake Lazaroff talks about buildinga video rendering service with Express and Node. It runs on a few DigitalOceanservers and has been up and running in production since February 2019. Jake goes over rendering ~30k+ videos over 2+ years, executing background tasks,sharing lots of code between the back-end and…

In this episode of Running in Production, Utsav Shah goes over buildingDropbox with Pylons, Python, Rust and Go. It’s mostly hosted on their owndata centers across 1,000+ servers. It’s been available since 2008. They have700+ million users and handle 100k+ requests per second. Utsav talks about working with hundreds of engineers on a multi-million …

In this episode of Running in Production, Nate Rush goes over building aJupyterLab extension with Python. It runs locally in a Jupyter Notebook butthey also host JupyterHub instances on a Kubernetes cluster running in EKS.It’s been running in production since late 2020. Nate talks about building a cross platform Python installer, building andpublis…

In this episode of Running in Production, Tigran Nazaryan covers building aWordPress hosting platform with Laravel, Python and Node. It’s hosted on GCPfor their clients’ sites and OVH for their core services. It’s been up andrunning as a hosting platform since late 2020. Tigran talks about working with a team of 34 engineers, using both MongoDB and…

In this episode of Running in Production, Ian Eyberg goes over creating aUnikernel with C as well as host a few sites supporting his tool with Go. It’shosted on Google Cloud and their own data center. Nanos has been available since2020. Ian talks about what a Unikernel is, their open source tools and how theymanage their own services. This episode …

In this episode of Running in Production, Cole Simmons goes over buildingan AI driven service for commercial real estate professionals with Flask andPython. It’s hosted on Google Cloud using GKE (Kubernetes) and has been up andrunning since 2017. Cole talks about rewriting the initial prototype, the dangers of not using anORM, splitting out the fro…

In this episode of Running in Production, Jason Charnes goes over building avideo course hosting platform. It’s built with Ruby on Rails and is hosted onHeroku. It’s been running in production since 2014. Jason talks about using StimulusReflex / Action Cable, upgrading to SidekiqEnterprise, writing tons of tests, setting up auto scaling on Heroku, …

In this episode of Running in Production, Sean Callaway talks about buildingan app to help manage REI’s server infrastructure. It was built with Django andit’s mostly hosted on premises in their own data center. Sean covers keeping the app mostly server rendered and goes into detail aboutusing Ansible, Kubernetes and Rancher to help manage things. …

In this episode of Running in Production, Nick Hnatiw goes over building apassword manager with Django and Python. It’s hosted on Heroku andDigitalOcean. Nick talks about using Django Rest Framework because there’s a web app alongwith native mobile apps, the value in charging for a product to avoid havingyour data sold, using HashiCorp Vault to man…

In this episode of Running in Production, Mubashar Iqbal talks about buildinga site to find podcast episodes with Laravel and PHP. It’s hosted onDigitalOcean using Forge and has been up and running since mid 2019. Mubs talks about using a bit of Vue as needed, not upgrading to the latestLaravel immediately, interesting problems around parsing RSS f…

In this episode of Running in Production, Jonathan Adly goes over building agift giving service with Django and Python. It’s hosted on Heroku’s hobby tierand has been up and running since November 2020. Jonathan talks about shipping his first app, using Celery for background jobs,handling non-standard payment patterns with Stripe, not getting caugh…

This episode is no longer available at the moment because it’s being reviewedby 1 or more companies that own this service. It may or may not come back.It’s up to them. If you’re wondering if something very secret was accidentally leaked, itwasn’t. We had a conversation similar to every other episode on this site. However, as a podcast host (this is…

In this episode of Running in Production, Anthony Eden covers building adomain management service with Rails, Go and Erlang. It’s hosted on acombination of 70+ bare metal servers, AWS and Heroku. It’s been been up andrunning since 2010. Anthony talks about handling millions of API queries per day, ~5 billionmonthly DNS queries, spikes of up to 10,0…

In this episode of Running in Production, Justin Duke goes over buildingan email newsletter service. It’s mostly hosted on Heroku and has has been upand running since late 2016. Justin talks about how he handles sending out 100k+ emails, having a mix ofDjango templates and DRF + Vue, using rq to schedule emails, scaling withHeroku, balancing out wh…

In this episode of Running in Production, Denis Stepanenko talks about buildingan internal app to help manage finances around selling season tickets. It’shosted on DigitalOcean and has been up and running since mid 2020. Denis covers what the process was like to rebuild an old PHP app with Django,coding everything with 6 months of experience, using…

In this episode of Running in Production, Ian Davidson goes over building adata sharing service using Phoenix and Elixir. It’s using Live View too. At itspeak the site received a spike of 10k+ requests in a day and it’s hosted on a$20 / month DigitalOcean server. Ian talks about quickly building the app, reacting quickly to add userrequested featur…

In this episode of Running in Production, Dash Winterson talks about buildinga new type of chat app for iOS using Django and Python on the back-end. It’shosted on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk and has been up and running since mid2020. Dash covers creating async compatible code in Django, developing a monolithicback-end that a few developers develop …

In this episode of Running in Production, Nidal Alhariri goes over building asales and CRM tool with Flask and Python. It’s hosted on a few cloud providerssuch as AWS and Linode. It was created in mid-2019. Nidal talks about using MongoDB, splitting tenants out with their ownindividual servers, mixing in Vue where needed, using Ansible and he also …

In this episode of Running in Production, Jared Chung talks about buildinga community platform with Django and Python. It’s hosted on AWS and has beenup and running in production since 2011. The beta version was intially builtduring a 4 day hackaton. Jared talks about taking advantage of Django’s batteries included, heavilyusing Celery / Redis and …

In this episode of Running in Production, Sascha Wolf walks us through aninternal tool he built to help deal with microservices. It’s written inPhoenix and Elixir and is hosted within a Kubernetes cluster on AWS using EKS.It’s been running in production since mid 2019. Sascha talks about rewriting the prototype from Java to Elixir, takingadvantage …

In this episode of Running in Production, Jerod Santo and Gerhard Lazu go over their news and podcast platform which is using Phoenix and Elixir.It was rewritten in Phoenix back in 2015 and it runs on Linode’s KubernetesEngine across a 3 node cluster. Jerod and Gerhard talk about building a context-less Phoenix app, usingTurbolinks, caching, transi…

In this episode of Running in Production, Joel Griffith goes over building aservice to run headless browsers using Express, Node and Docker. It’s been upand running since late 2017 and runs on just under 1,000 DigitalOcean servers. Joel talks about handling millions of browser sessions, breaking the app upinto a few pieces, using Redis as a primary…

In this episode of Running in Production, Parker Selbert talks about buildingthe licensing site for his Oban project using Phoenix and Elixir. It’s been upand running since March 2019 on Heroku. Parker talks about using Live View for the demo page, how access control ishandled with Hex’s private packages, a bunch of libraries he uses, hand rollingh…

In this episode of Running in Production, Ben Dominguez goes over building avideo course platform to learn Python. It’s written in Flask and the MVP wasfinished in 3 weeks. He gets about 4,000 visitors a month. It’s hosted Heroku’shobby tier. Ben is the solo developer on the project. He talks about using techs you’refamiliar with, keeping deploymen…

In this episode of Running in Production, Kshitij Sinha walks us through hisjob finding platform called Creative Hire. It was written in Python and Djangoand is hosted on AWS’ free tier. It’s been up and running since early 2020after the MVP was built in about 6 weeks. Kshitij is the solo developer on the project. It’s a monolith split across afew …

In this episode of Running in Production, Kye Russell goes over running aformative school assessment tool for 800+ schools in Australia. It’s built withDjango and it’s been running in production since 2017 on AWS. Kye is the solo developer on the project. It’s a monolith split across 10+Django apps. They’ve gone all-in with a bunch of AWS services …