Skillwell Is a Video Platform That Helps You Unlock Physical Skills
Running in Production
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John Debs goes over building a video platform with Django to help get you stronger and more flexible. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
In this episode of Running in Production, John Debs talks about building
a video platform with Django that helps you get stronger and be more flexible.
It’s hosted on a single $5 / month DigitalOcean server and has been up and
running since fall 2019.
John really drives home the value in shipping something simple on the first pass
and iterating on it if there ends up being demand for it.
Topics Include
2:36 – It started part time but now it’s full time
4:28 – Motivation for using Python and Django mainly came down to confidence
8:05 – It’s pretty close to a monolith with a few Django apps
11:42 – Reasons for using a custom video player (looping, mirroring, etc.)
14:18 – Videos are uploaded directly to S3 with pre-signed URLs and no transcoding (yet)
19:51 – Using the Django RQ library for doing asynchronous work
21:36 – Having fun using React to write the custom video player
26:35 – Creating a first pass chat feature so students can ask questions
28:41 – Using Vagrant in development, with Ansible on a single $5 / mo DigitalOcean server
37:27 – For a web server they’re using gunicorn, nginx and Let’s Encrypt for SSL
41:27 – Using Stripe to handle payments has been a nice dev experience so far
49:16 – Using Mailgun for transactional emails and Mailchimp for email campaigns
53:59 – Mixing in jQuery as needed has been a pleasure to use, along with Webpack
55:54 – The deployment process from development to production
1:03:40 – S3 is trusted for video backups and database backups are done on every deploy
1:07:35 – Best tips? Keep learning but pick things you’re familiar with
1:10:02 – Check out their platform at https://goskillwell.com/ and they are on Instagram too
Links
📄 References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acroyoga
https://sendy.co
https://www.cypress.io/
⚙️ Tech Stack
django →
python →
react →
ansible →
digitalocean →
jquery →
lets-encrypt →
mailchimp →
mailgun →
nginx →
postgres →
redis →
s3 →
sentry →
stripe →
ubuntu →
webpack →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/boto/boto3
https://github.com/rq/django-rq
https://gunicorn.org/
https://github.com/dj-stripe/dj-stripe
https://www.fabfile.org/
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