DataWellness Helps Organizations Stay Safe and Compliant
with Nick Janetakis and Dave Merwin
Running in Production · Nick Janetakis
August 10, 202059m 22s
Show Notes
In this episode of Running in Production, Dave Merwin goes over building a service that helps protect those that protect us. It’s a service written in Django and it’s hosted on a single DigitalOcean server. It’s been up and running since 2016.
Dave covers using Django apps, the benefits of keeping everything hosted on 1 server and getting your app up and in front of customers as soon as possible.
Topics Include
- 3:01 – Initially building an app for 1 B2B client and designing features based on that
- 5:58 – Motivation for using Django and Python for this project
- 9:26 – Building a monolith with 14 Django apps but moving towards microservices
- 14:47 – Mostly server rendered Django templates but there are pieces done with Vue
- 20:50 – PostgreSQL is being used as a DB and a side topic about how nice TailwindCSS is
- 25:08 – Not using Docker and learning from the Django community when getting stuck
- 28:50 – Everything runs on a single DigitalOcean server using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- 32:30 – Using Gunicorn, nginx, Let’s Encrypt and Cloudflare
- 39:38 – Not waiting out for the best tools and being able to evolve your tech stack
- 41:58 – Deployment process from start to finish
- 46:14 – DigitalOcean’s alerting tools are enabled along with Uptime Robot
- 51:23 – Using DigitalOcean’s server snapshots for complete backups
- 56:05 – Best tips? Try to get your app in front of your customers as soon as possible
- 58:40 – Dave is on Twitter @davemerwin and check out their site https://purebluedesign.com/
Links
📄 References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_and_Accountability_Act
- https://tailwindcss.com/
- https://gist.github.com/davemerwin/75420b25ae8a975ec6916d5141eb39d4 (server set up)