In this episode of Running in Production, Karl Roos goes over building a B2B news and data platform with Rails, Node and Python. It’s hosted on AWS using Elastic Beanstalk and has been up and running since 2014.
Karl talks about writing a Rails API back-end, scraping 400+ sites, executing 500k+ daily jobs, using a bunch of AWS resources, what it’s like dealing with a ~500 GB MySQL database, the importance on taking action and more.
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