Fantasy Football Data Pros Teaches You Python through Fantasy Football
Running in Production
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Ben Dominguez goes over building a video course platform to learn Python with Flask. It's hosted on Heroku's hobby tier.
In this episode of Running in Production, Ben Dominguez goes over building a
video course platform to learn Python. It’s written in Flask and the MVP was
finished in 3 weeks. He gets about 4,000 visitors a month. It’s hosted Heroku’s
hobby tier.
Ben is the solo developer on the project. He talks about using techs you’re
familiar with, keeping deployments simple with Heroku, using PaymentIntents
with Stripe and much more.
Topics Include
7:28 – Motivation for moving from WordPress to using Flask and Python
10:55 – It’s a video course platform to learn Python through Fantasy Football
13:08 – A couple of useful Python / Flask libraries that helped move things along quickly
16:07 – The React front-end and Flask API back-end are in the same repo
21:58 – PostgreSQL (prod) / SQLite (dev) are being used and the app is hosted on Heroku
27:56 – Tech stack recap and how Stripe is implemented with PaymentIntents
32:38 – Sending emails out with Mailchimp and gmail’s SMTP servers
35:34 – Everything is running on the hobby tier of Heroku for $7 / month
38:27 – The deployment process from development to production
41:04 – Database backups happen every 24 hours and manually before DB migrations
45:36 – Maybe implementing a custom forum into the platform later
48:44 – Best tips? Use your bread and butter skills to get to market as soon as possible
50:16 – Check out the platform or find FFDataPros on Twitter and GitHub
Links
📄 References
https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
https://jupyter.org/
⚙️ Tech Stack
flask →
python →
react →
gulp →
heroku →
mailchimp →
postgres →
sqlite →
webpack →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow
https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login
https://www.sqlalchemy.org/
https://gunicorn.org/
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