An Internal Financial Planning Service for Season Ticket Holders
Running in Production
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Denis Stepanenko talks about building a financial planning service with Django and Python. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
In this episode of Running in Production, Denis Stepanenko talks about building
an internal app to help manage finances around selling season tickets. It’s
hosted 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 DRF and React, keeping
deployments simple and not being afraid to read other people’s source code.
Topics Include
2:59 – Converting an older PHP app into Django and motivation for picking Django
6:13 – Switching from Django templates to a DRF API back-end with a React front-end
10:58 – Webpack is being used to bundle all of the assets
12:34 – Hosted on DigitalOcean, gunicorn and nginx is being used, plus cron jobs too
15:09 – Switching from PostgreSQL back to SQLite and being productive
17:47 – Useful Python and Django libraries that helped get things going
19:56 – nginx is serving SSL certs created by Let’s Encrypt and picking DigitalOcean
26:03 – The server was set up by hand and he also uses WSL on Windows for local testing
27:30 – What it’s like to deploy a new feature from development to production
32:37 – Database backups are done manually and also by DigitalOcean’s backup feature
36:34 – Database migrations are kind of a pain
39:09 – Best tips? Don’t be afraid to read other people’s source code
42:08 – You can find Denis on GitHub at https://github.com/Denis-Step/
Links
📄 References
https://material-ui.com/
https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-recycled-ip-address-caused-me-to-pirate-390000-books-by-accident
⚙️ Tech Stack
django →
python →
react →
digitalocean →
lets-encrypt →
nginx →
sqlite →
ubuntu →
webpack →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework
https://material-table.com
https://gunicorn.org/
https://github.com/omab/django-social-auth
https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth
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