Running in Production

By Nick Janetakis - Full stack developer

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What's Running in Production about?

Hear about how folks are running their web apps in production. We'll cover tech choices, why they chose them, lessons learned and more.

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Running in Production episodes:

12.20.2021
Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps
Filipe Névola goes over building a Meteor hosting platform using Meteor, Node and Go. It's hosted on AWS and has been up since 2015.
11.22.2021
CompanyCam Helps Contractors Document Their Job
Chad Wilken goes over building a service that contractors use to help them communicate with their crew and more. It's been up since 2014.
10.18.2021
TinyPilotKVM Lets You Remote Control Your Server from Your Browser
Michael Lynch goes over building a hardware device to remote control your server. It's been available since mid 2020.
10.11.2021
uscreen Is a Platform That Helps Content Creators Build a Business
Nick Savrov goes over building a platform to help content creators with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and has been up since 2014.
10.04.2021
Great Question Makes It Easy for Teams to Perform Customer Research
PJ Murray goes over creating a customer research app with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and has been running in production since mid-2020.
09.27.2021
Robot Accounts AI Provides a System to Let You Categorize Invoices
Josh Kinabrew goes over building an AI driven invoice system with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and AWS. It's been up since 2013.
09.20.2021
Fundraze Is a Flexible Fund Raising and Campaign Management Service
CJ Avilla goes over creating a fund raising with Rails. It's hosted on Heroku and has been running in production since 2015.
09.13.2021
Running in Production Is a Podcast Where Devs Chat about Tech Stacks
Nick Janetakis goes over building a podcast site with Jekyll and Ruby. It's hosted on DigitalOcean and has been up and running since 2019.
09.06.2021
A Custom Electronic Medical Record System for an Ophthalmology Clinic
Jason Swett goes over creating a medical app with Rails. It's hosted on AWS using Kubernetes and has been up and running since 2019.
08.30.2021
Games Directory Lets You Sync Your Games and Achievements in 1 Place
Vlad Radulescu goes over creating a game directory site with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on AWS and has up and running since 2014.
08.23.2021
School Bus Hero Helps School Bus Drivers and Aides Find a Job
Dieter Lunn goes over building a job board site for school bus drivers using Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on DigitalOcean with HatchBox.
08.16.2021
Hitobito Helps You Manage Communities with Complex Group Hierarchies
Matthias Viehweger goes over building a service to help organize groups of people with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted with OpenShift.
08.09.2021
Submotion Helps You Manage Access Control for Your SAAS Subscriptions
Kristian Dupont talks about building a SAAS app access control service with Koa and Node. It's mostly hosted on Heroku.
08.02.2021
HorseRecords Lets You Record Everything about Your Horses
Andy Ide goes over building a horse SAAS app with Django and Python. It's hosted on a single Linode server.
07.26.2021
Politico Europe Is a Business to Business News and Data Service
Karl Roos talks about building a B2B news platform with Rails, Node and Python. It's hosted AWS using Elastic Beanstalk.
07.19.2021
Couchmate Is a Social Chat Platform for Viewers of Live TV
Matt Oliver goes over building a chat platform with Akka, Scala and React Native. It's hosted on DigitalOcean with Kubernetes.
07.12.2021
Managing 40+ Servers in a Data Center at a Medical University
Maciej Delmanowski goes over managing 40+ servers and 200+ VMs with Ansible. It's been an ongoing project he's worked on since 2007.
07.05.2021
Avo Is a Framework for Creating Ruby on Rails Admin Panels
Adrian Marin goes over building a custom Rails admin framework and gem. It's hosted on Heroku.
06.28.2021
Optidash Is an Image Processing and Optimization API
Przemek Matylla talks about building an image processing API with C, Python and Node. It's hosted on bare metal servers.
06.21.2021
CourseMaker Is an Online Course Builder for Technical Makers
Chris Samiullah goes over building a video course platform with FastAPI, Strapi and Gatsby. It's hosted on ECS and various AWS resources.
06.14.2021
Statuspal Is a Service for Hosted Status Pages and Monitoring
Eduardo Messuti talks about building a status page and monitoring service with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
06.07.2021
QA Wolf Helps You Create Automated Browser Tests as You Use Your Site
Jon Perl goes over building an automated testing service with Node and React. It's hosted on Netlify, Vercel, Azure and DigitalOcean.
05.31.2021
ListenAddict Lets You Subscribe to a Person Like You Would to a Show
David Parker talks about building a service to subscribe to people with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on Heroku.
05.24.2021
PriceTable Mixes in Sales Automation, Project Management and Invoicing
Ege Ersoz goes over building a project management service with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on Gigalixir.
05.17.2021
SongRender Lets You Create Audio Visualizer Videos from Audio Clips
Jake Lazaroff talks about building a video rendering service with Express and Node. It's hosted on a few DigitalOcean servers.
05.10.2021
Dropbox Gives You Secure Access to All of Your Files
Utsav Shah goes over building Dropbox with Pylons, Python, Rust and Go. It's mostly hosted on their own datacenters across 1000+ servers.
05.03.2021
Mito Is a JupyterLab Extension to Make Python Data Analysis Easy
Nate Rush goes over building a JupyterLab extension with Python. The managed Jupyter Lab instances run on a Kubernetes cluster on EKS.
04.26.2021
10Web Is an Automated WordPress Hosting Platform
Tigran Nazaryan goes over building a WordPress hosting platform with Laravel, Python and Node. It's hosted on GCP and OVH.
04.19.2021
NanoVMs Let You Run Your Apps Faster and Safer with Unikernels
Ian Eyberg talks about Unikernels and how he built one with C. Their site is built with Golang and hosted on GCP / their own datacenter.
04.12.2021
AbstractCRE Helps Extract Key Data from Real Estate Property Documents
Cole Simmons goes over building a service for commercial real estate professionals using Flask and Python. It's hosted on GCP using GKE.
04.05.2021
Podia Has Everything You Need to Sell Online Courses
Jason Charnes talks about building a video course hosting platform with Ruby on Rails. It's hosted on Heroku.
03.29.2021
Building an Internal App to Track 1,200+ VMs and Servers at REI
Sean Callaway goes over building an infrastructure management app with Django and Python. It's mostly hosted on premesis.
03.21.2021
Password Space Is a Password Manager for Families
Nick Hnatiw talks about building a password manager with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku and DigitalOcean.
03.15.2021
Pod Hunt Helps You Find Great Podcast Episodes to Listen To
Mubs goes over building his podcast episode finding app with Laravel and PHP. It's hosted on DigitalOcean using Forge.
03.08.2021
Joyful Gifts Is an Automated Gift Giving Service
Jonathan Adly talks about building a gift giving service with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku.
03.01.2021
This Episode Was Removed Because It's under Review
This episode is no longer available at the moment because it's being reviewed by any and all companies involved with the episode.
02.22.2021
DNSimple Is a Simple and Secure Domain Management Service
Anthony Eden talks about building a domain management service with Rails, Go and Erlang. It's hosted on bare metal, AWS and Heroku.
02.15.2021
Buttondown Lets You Build, Grow and Launch Your Email Newsletter
Justin Duke goes over building an email newsletter sending service with Django and Python. It's hosted on Heroku and AWS.
02.08.2021
An Internal Financial Planning Service for Season Ticket Holders
Denis Stepanenko talks about building a financial planning service with Django and Python. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
02.01.2021
TextDB Is a Simple Way to Share Small Amounts of Data
Ian Davidson goes over building a data sharing service with Phoenix and Elixir using Live View. It's hosted on DigitalOcean.
01.25.2021
Muze Is a Freeform iOS Chat Application
Dash Winterson talks about building a new type of iOS chat app using Django and Python on the back-end. It's hosted on AWS.
01.18.2021
MixedCRM Is a Sales and CRM Tool for Real Estate Property Developers
Nidal Alhariri goes over building a CRM tool with Flask and Python. It's hosted on a few cloud providers such as AWS and Linode.
01.11.2021
CareerVillage Is a Community Where Students Can Get Career Advice
Jared Chung talks about building a community platform with Django and Python. It's hosted on a number of AWS resources.
01.04.2021
Stacker Is an Internal Tool to Stitch Together Microservices Responses
Sascha Wolf goes over building an internal tool with Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on AWS in a Kubernetes cluster through EKS.
12.28.2020
Changelog.com Is a News and Podcast Platform for Developers
Jerod Santo & Gerhard Lazu go over building a news and podcast platform with Phoenix / Elixir. It's hosted on Linode's Kubernetes Engine.
12.21.2020
Browserless Gives You Fast, Scalable and Reliable Browser Automation
Joel Griffith goes over building Browserless with Express, Node and Docker. It's hosted on about 1,000+ DigitalOcean servers.
12.14.2020
Monitor Oban Jobs in Real Time with Oban Web Pro
Parker Selbert talks about how he handles the licensing site for his Oban project using Phoenix and Elixir. It's hosted on Heroku.
12.07.2020
Fantasy Football Data Pros Teaches You Python through Fantasy Football
Ben Dominguez goes over building a video course platform to learn Python with Flask. It's hosted on Heroku's hobby tier.
11.30.2020
Creative Hire Helps Match Designers and Companies to Various Jobs
Kshitij Sinha goes over building his job finding platform with Django. It's hosted on a single t2 micro AWS instance using the free tier.
11.23.2020
Brightpath Is a Formative School Assessment Tool
Kye Russell talks us through a school assessment tool built with Django and Python. It's running on AWS.

What's Running in Production about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Running in Production episodes:

Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps

CompanyCam Helps Contractors Document Their Job

TinyPilotKVM Lets You Remote Control Your Server from Your Browser

uscreen Is a Platform That Helps Content Creators Build a Business

Great Question Makes It Easy for Teams to Perform Customer Research

Robot Accounts AI Provides a System to Let You Categorize Invoices

Fundraze Is a Flexible Fund Raising and Campaign Management Service

Running in Production Is a Podcast Where Devs Chat about Tech Stacks

A Custom Electronic Medical Record System for an Ophthalmology Clinic

Games Directory Lets You Sync Your Games and Achievements in 1 Place

School Bus Hero Helps School Bus Drivers and Aides Find a Job

Hitobito Helps You Manage Communities with Complex Group Hierarchies

Submotion Helps You Manage Access Control for Your SAAS Subscriptions

HorseRecords Lets You Record Everything about Your Horses

Politico Europe Is a Business to Business News and Data Service

Couchmate Is a Social Chat Platform for Viewers of Live TV

Managing 40+ Servers in a Data Center at a Medical University

Avo Is a Framework for Creating Ruby on Rails Admin Panels

Optidash Is an Image Processing and Optimization API

CourseMaker Is an Online Course Builder for Technical Makers

Statuspal Is a Service for Hosted Status Pages and Monitoring

QA Wolf Helps You Create Automated Browser Tests as You Use Your Site

ListenAddict Lets You Subscribe to a Person Like You Would to a Show

PriceTable Mixes in Sales Automation, Project Management and Invoicing

SongRender Lets You Create Audio Visualizer Videos from Audio Clips

Dropbox Gives You Secure Access to All of Your Files

Mito Is a JupyterLab Extension to Make Python Data Analysis Easy

10Web Is an Automated WordPress Hosting Platform

NanoVMs Let You Run Your Apps Faster and Safer with Unikernels

AbstractCRE Helps Extract Key Data from Real Estate Property Documents

Podia Has Everything You Need to Sell Online Courses

Building an Internal App to Track 1,200+ VMs and Servers at REI

Password Space Is a Password Manager for Families

Pod Hunt Helps You Find Great Podcast Episodes to Listen To

Joyful Gifts Is an Automated Gift Giving Service

This Episode Was Removed Because It's under Review

DNSimple Is a Simple and Secure Domain Management Service

Buttondown Lets You Build, Grow and Launch Your Email Newsletter

An Internal Financial Planning Service for Season Ticket Holders

TextDB Is a Simple Way to Share Small Amounts of Data

Muze Is a Freeform iOS Chat Application

MixedCRM Is a Sales and CRM Tool for Real Estate Property Developers

CareerVillage Is a Community Where Students Can Get Career Advice

Stacker Is an Internal Tool to Stitch Together Microservices Responses

Changelog.com Is a News and Podcast Platform for Developers

Browserless Gives You Fast, Scalable and Reliable Browser Automation

Monitor Oban Jobs in Real Time with Oban Web Pro

Fantasy Football Data Pros Teaches You Python through Fantasy Football

Creative Hire Helps Match Designers and Companies to Various Jobs

Brightpath Is a Formative School Assessment Tool