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Running in Production
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Jason Charnes talks about building a video course hosting platform with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on Heroku.
In this episode of Running in Production, Jason Charnes goes over building a
video course hosting platform. It’s built with Ruby on Rails and is hosted on
Heroku. It’s been running in production since 2014.
Jason talks about using StimulusReflex / Action Cable, upgrading to Sidekiq
Enterprise, writing tons of tests, setting up auto scaling on Heroku, tips to
run zero down database migrations at scale, ways to reduce 3rd party API calls
and more.
Topics Include
2:39 – Motivation for using Ruby on Rails (and yes Rails does scale!)
3:50 – Using interactors and Action Cable with StimulusReflex
6:06 – Things to think about for using Hotwire Turbo Streams vs other solutions
10:56 – Action Cable is embedded into the main web server
12:25 – The workflow gem and how payments are handled with Stripe and PayPal
16:15 – Recently upgrading to Sidekiq Enterprise and also using flipper for feature flags
19:40 – Using Knapsack Pro to help speed up tests in CI
21:18 – Code to test radio is about 1 to 1.5 and there’s about 38k lines of non-test code
24:03 – Examples of when they’re using Sidekiq’s batching feature
26:38 – Mostly using the asset pipeline but also using Webpacker and using StimulusJS
30:07 – Most developers at Podia touch most areas of the code base
31:37 – The run down on how the site editor works and using Trix plus Active Storage
34:41 – It’s 2021 and uploads still aren’t a fully solved problem
36:57 – Handling bulk video uploads from Podia to Wistia
38:38 – PostgreSQL is the main database, Docker isn’t being used and on-boarding new devs
40:53 – How they’re using Caddy and Let’s Encrypt to link custom domains to customers
42:48 – Using Postmark for transactional emails and SparkPost for email campaigns
44:18 – Full text search with PostgreSQL and building the Podia admin dashboard
47:38 – It’s hosted on Heroku and they use the Rails Autoscale add-on
49:43 – Surviving Black Friday without any problems
51:25 – The end to end process and time to deploy code from development to production
53:01 – Gems and strategies to help run database migrations at scale
56:44 – Using Diffend to audit gems and switching from Heroku’s scheduler to Sidekiq
1:01:42 – The DB is backed up on Heroku’s schedule and everything else is backed up too
1:03:21 – Avoiding tons of third party API calls by storing certain things locally
1:05:16 – Their payment code builds upon the official Ruby SDKs from Stripe and PayPal
1:06:11 – Using Uptime Robot, Cronitor, OpsGenie and Slack for monitoring and alerts
1:09:13 – Best tips? Build a friendly team of co-workers and automate as much as you can
1:11:03 – You can find Jason on Twitter at @jmcharnes
Links
📄 References
https://www.speedshop.co/blog/
https://hotwire.dev/
https://courses.jasoncharnes.com/stimulus-reflex
https://gorails.com/episodes/how-to-use-cable-ready
https://anycable.io/
https://remoteruby.transistor.fm/113 (DHH on the Remote Ruby podcast)
https://elements.heroku.com/addons/rails-autoscale
https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
⚙️ Tech Stack
rails →
ruby →
react →
bootstrap →
caddy →
cronitor →
heroku →
jquery →
lets-encrypt →
metabase →
opsgenie →
paypal →
postgres →
postmark →
redis →
s3 →
slack →
spark-post →
stripe →
uptime-robot →
wistia →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/collectiveidea/interactor
https://github.com/hopsoft/stimulus_reflex
https://github.com/hopsoft/cable_ready
https://github.com/geekq/workflow
https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq
https://github.com/jnunemaker/flipper
https://github.com/KnapsackPro/knapsack_pro-ruby
https://stimulus.hotwire.dev/
https://github.com/basecamp/trix
https://github.com/Casecommons/pg_search
https://github.com/ilyakatz/data-migrate
https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations
https://diffend.io/
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