Statuspal Is a Service for Hosted Status Pages and Monitoring
Running in Production
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Eduardo Messuti talks about building a status page and monitoring service with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
In this episode of Running in Production, Eduardo Messuti talks about building
a status page and monitoring service with Phoenix and Elixir. It’s hosted on
DigitalOcean and Heroku. It’s been up and running since 2017.
Eduardo talks about upgrading their code base to use Phoenix contexts, using
Oban, creating a notification abstraction, going all-in with EEx rendered
templates and a bit of jQuery, using Docker Compose in production and more.
Topics Include
1:59 – What it was like using Elixir back in 2017
4:52 – Elixir handles 500k requests a day and motivation to use Elixir / Phoenix
8:17 – The process to upgrade the code base to use Phoenix contexts
10:02 – Oban is being used to handle background jobs
14:39 – Sending out notifications and webhooks with custom code
16:39 – Using Mix format as part of a CI pipeline with GitHub Actions
19:00 – Breaking out the mail service into its own service
21:03 – About 28k lines of Elixir and 2k lines of JS
23:48 – Server rendered app with EEx vs going the SPA / API route vs Live View
28:45 – Supplying a status page embed widget for customers and custom domains
33:08 – Using nginx as a reverse proxy, ETS for caching along with Cloudflare
35:03 – Hugo is being used to serve the static marketing site
37:11 – Docker is being used in staging and production
38:17 – The mailer is hosted on Heroku, everything else is on DigitalOcean
39:58 – The hardware specs of the 4-5 DigitalOcean servers and what they do
42:27 – They’re running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and upgraded the servers on the fly
44:13 – The servers are manually provisioned and run Docker Compose
50:52 – Deploying a feature from development to production
53:37 – User logos get uploaded and saved to disk with a Docker volume
54:52 – Using BackupPC for backing up the database, certificates and file uploads
56:40 – DigitalOcean’s monitoring and Pingdom are being used for various health checks
57:38 – Honeybadger and Papertrail for errors + logging, and the Elixir experience
1:00:38 – Best tips? Pick a technology you’re comfortable with and start building
1:01:31 – What it was like hiring Elixir contract workers
1:02:40 – Check out https://statuspal.io/ with promo code PRODUCTION to save 10%
Links
📄 References
https://turbo.hotwire.dev/
https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
https://elixirjobs.net/
⚙️ Tech Stack
phoenix →
elixir →
bootstrap →
cloudflare →
digitalocean →
docker →
github-actions →
heroku →
honeybadger →
hugo →
jquery →
lets-encrypt →
mailgun →
nginx →
papertrail →
pingdom →
postgres →
preact →
twilio →
ubuntu →
webpack →
🛠 Libraries Used
https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
https://github.com/code-corps/stripity_stripe
https://github.com/unrelentingtech/httpotion
https://github.com/smpallen99/coherence
https://github.com/preactjs/preact
https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
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