Blimp - How it's Made

Talk about the technology behind Blimp (getblimp.com) for Puerto Rico Python Interest Group #prPIG

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2. How it’s made
4. We will stop for questions
5. Agenda • What is Blimp? • Web app • Client web app • Job Workers • Monitoring and Logging • Testing • Deployment • Why we love Python?
6. What is Blimp?
8. • Project management platform for creative teams • Plan > Do > Review > Done • 3 co-founders / product managers • Founded 1 year ago • Flat organizational structure • New features launched weekly • Updates deployed daily
9. Web App
11. • Django • 13 internal apps • 70+ 3rd party modules • Virtualenv / Virtualenvwrapper • pip freeze > requirements.txt • PostgreSQL • Memcached
12. • Web app and database hosted on Heroku • AWS for DNS and uploads
13. Client Web App
15. • CoffeScript • Backbone.js • Stylus • Handlebars • Brunch
16. Job Workers
18. • Celery / Redis • Used for expensive computations or transactions • For example deleting a project, sending emails, importing projects, etc. • Hosted on 1 small custom EC2 instance
19. Monitoring and Logging
21. • New Relic to monitor performance, errors and availability of web app • Sentry (self-hosted) to log exceptions • Hasselblad to monitor KPIs • Google Analytics (real-time) • Email / HipChat for notifications
22. Testing
24. • We are getting better • Selenium for integration and client tests • Nose to run unittests on the Python side • Karma on the JavaScript side
25. Deployment
27. • Highly automated • We use and love Fabric • fab staging deploy • fab production deploy • Glue for sprite generation • Brunch to concatenate, compile and minify CoffeeScript, Stylus, Handlebars • Hosted on S3
28. • Database migrations • Deploy, update and manage workers • A lot of custom Fabric tasks • Manage db & workers • Environment variables • Heroku specific stuff
29. Why we love Python
31. • Small language • Beautiful and clean syntax • Easy to learn, great community • Massive standard library • Stack traces • pypi has 29,804 packages • 4,459 are Django specific
32. Questions?
33. Thanks! @blimp getblimp.com github.com/getblimp @jpadilla_ @gcollazo