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Hey @aprilzero what was the backend stack you went with to build something like this? Just curious :)

• aprilzero 12y ago
  Originally it was Python and now a combination of Python & Go.
• creativityhurts 12y ago
  He wrote a couple of articles about how he build the service for himself and it used Python with Django so it's safe to assume he stuck with that stack https://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero/ https://aprilzero.com/journal/making-of-aprilzero/ (he's whole site seems to be down now, perhaps the HN effect)
• ericflo 12y ago
  We've split the backend into a service layer written in Go, a data fetching and processing layer also written in Go, and a web layer written in Python/Coffeescript. We use Kafka to connect a lot of the pieces together, and data is stored in PostgreSQL and Cassandra.
  • ekarulf 12y ago
    This is awesome. Congrats on the launch Flo :)
    • ericflo 12y ago
      Oh hi Erik, cool to see you here and thanks! Haven't seen you in way too long.
• mirashii 12y ago
  @ericflo will probably pop by and answer a little bit more, but the major pieces are a golang powered API stack, a Django app that consumes that API stack and does all the template rendering and such, and a lot of background workers based around Kafka/Storm to pull the data from the third party services. @aprilzero can certainly talk more about the frontend stack.