Confectionery Connect Is an E-commerce Video Course Marketplace
Running in Production
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Sean Parsons goes over building a video course marketplace with Django. It has about 100k+ lines of code and is hosted on AWS.
In this episode of Running in Production, Sean Parsons goes over building
an e-commerce video course marketplace to sell Confectionery goods with Django
and Python. It’s been running in production since December 2019 and it’s hosted
on AWS.
The app has roughly ~100k lines of code and was solo developed part time over
about 3 months before shipping an MVP.
Topics Include
3:00 – Modifying an existing e-commerce library called Seleor
7:20 – Figuring out how to pay out instructors fairly based on activity
10:04 – Picking Django, avoiding burnout and splitting the code into ~15 Django apps
20:49 – Celery is being used extensively, along with Celery Beat
25:10 – Stripe as a payment gateway was a natural fit given their subscription model
29:44 – It is a server rendered site with Django templates, except for the video player
35:26 – Turns out using Amazon’s video encoding service is expensive, so Sean uses ffmpeg
38:48 – High level overview about the rest of the tech stack
42:21 – Using Fabric to deploy to a single EC2 instance
45:00 – Going over the deploy process from development to production
50:08 – Benefits of switching to a compute optimized C5n.large EC2 instance
1:00:46 – Handling disasters and unexpected events
1:04:39 – Best tips? Pick the tool you’re the most productive with and ship something
1:07:03 – They’re on Instagram with a new account name of ZenVur
Links
📄 References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery
https://transferwise.com/us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hY6DSSVvYw (Etsy talk on deployment)
⚙️ Tech Stack
django →
python →
aws →
cloudfront →
cloudwatch →
docker →
elasticache →
postgres →
rds →
redis →
route53 →
s3 →
statuscake →
stripe →
supervisor →
ubuntu →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/mirumee/saleor
https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation
https://github.com/celery/celery
https://flower.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
https://videojs.com/
https://gunicorn.org/
https://www.fabfile.org/
https://github.com/antonagestam/collectfast
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