In this episode of Running in Production, David Parker talks about building a service to subscribe to people with Ruby on Rails and Sapper. It’s hosted on Heroku ($30 / month) and has been up and running since November 2020.
David talks about creating an API back-end with Rails, trying out Svelte and Sapper, the challenges of scraping names from websites, figuring out and fixing PostgreSQL performance issues, finding a good work / life balance and more.
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