HorseRecords Lets You Record Everything about Your Horses
Running in Production
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Andy Ide goes over building a horse SAAS app with Django and Python. It's hosted on a single Linode server.
In this episode of Running in Production, Andy Ide goes over building a
SAAS app for horses with Django and Python. It’s hosted on a single Linode
server 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, outsourcing
setting up a server, the importance of having a good testing team and more.
Andy was kind enough to give listeners of this podcast 20% off for life if you
use promo code RUNNING20 when signing up, that
includes signing up for free since it carries over to a paid plan.
Topics Include
6:11 – About 60ish users signed up about a month after launching
8:34 – The process of learning Django while building this app
11:29 – Using the Django admin and a bunch of other useful packages
14:34 – Django Unicorn is being used for interactive bits w/o having to write a lot of JS
18:34 – It’s a Django monolithic with a bunch of Django apps
22:27 – How Django Rest Framework is being used for the reporting part of the app
28:46 – The app is mostly Django rendered templates with sprinkles of JS and Unicorn
34:00 – Stripe is handling payments, their API and docs are great
41:02 – (1) $10 / month Linode server hosts everything with 1 CPU core and 2GB of memory
45:25 – Picking the most recent version of Ubuntu and keeping deploys simple
52:05 – Using Cloudflare for DNS and using their paid plan
56:54 – Running tests locally before deploying it
59:12 – Handling backups with Django DB Backup and Linode’s backup service
1:02:12 – Using Sentry for exception reporting, viewing logs and Uptime Robot
1:08:50 – Best tips? Install Sentry and have a good testing team
1:13:37 – Check out HorseRecords on Facebook and Andy’s Django Blog
Links
📄 References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stud_farm
https://djangochat.com/
https://djangoandy.com/2021/05/14/integrating-django-rest-framework-and-retool/
https://djangoandy.com/2021/05/02/what-i-learned-in-the-first-2-days-of-launching-my-saas-startup/
⚙️ Tech Stack
django →
python →
cloudflare →
jquery →
linode →
nginx →
postgres →
retool →
sentry →
stripe →
systemd →
ubuntu →
uptime-robot →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth
https://github.com/select2/select2
https://www.django-rest-framework.org/
https://github.com/matthewwithanm/django-imagekit
https://github.com/dmpayton/django-admin-honeypot
https://github.com/django-hijack/django-hijack
https://www.django-unicorn.com/
https://github.com/yourlabs/django-autocomplete-light
https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn
https://github.com/pypa/pipenv
https://github.com/django-dbbackup/django-dbbackup
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