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* Add redis gem and client * use keyword arguments in redis initializer * check for REDISCLOUD_URL and fallback on REDIS_URL when connecting to redis * dont parse Redis url in initializer
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| Technical Overview |
🔑 Key App tech/services
For the Dev.to tech stack we use:
- Puma as the web server
- PostgreSQL as the primary database
- Redis to store additional data and eventually replace memcache
- Fastly for edge caching
- Cloudinary for image manipulation/serving
- Airbrake for error monitoring
- Timber for logging
- Delayed Job and Active Job for background workers
- Algolia for search
- Redcarpet and Rouge to parse Markdown
- Carrierwave, Fog and AWS S3 for image upload/storage
- InstantClick (a modified version) instead of Turbolinks to accelerate navigation
- ImageMagick to manipulate images on upload
- Heroku for hosting
- Heroku scheduler for scheduled jobs
- Sendgrid for transactional mailing
- Mailchimp for marketing/outreach emails
- Figaro for app configuration
- CounterCulture to keep track of association counts (counter caches)
- Rolify for role management
- Pundit for authorization
- Service Workers to proxy traffic
- Preact for some of the frontend. See the Frontend Guide for more info
- Pusher for realtime communication between the application and users' browsers
- GitDocs for beautiful and SEO-friendly documentation
- Git for version control
- GitHub for hosting the source code and issue tracking
This list is non-exhaustive. If you see something that belongs here, feel free to add it.