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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
- ClickHouse: It's a high performance columnar database that's great for real time queries. It enables querying and storing large amounts of data on commodity hardware. Some of my customers have millions of page views and I don't have an unlimited budget, so it's been very handy.
- PostgreSQL: My favorite database. Sane defaults, battle-tested, and well
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Nicolay Gerold added 1y ago
- ingress-nginx: Ingress controller for Kubernetes. It provisions NGINX services to load balance traffic to my pods. It also manages a Network Load Balancer (NLB) on AWS which controls ingress to the cluster nodes. It handles unhealthy nodes and traffic shaping for me. Rock-solid and has a huge community.
- cert-manager: It automatically issues and rene
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Nicolay Gerold added 1y ago
- Terraform: I manage most of my cloud infrastructure with Terraform. I declare EKS clusters, S3 buckets, roles, and RDS instances in my Terraform manifests. The state is sync'ed to an encrypted S3 bucket. This avoids getting into trouble in case something happens to my development laptop.
- Docker: I build everything as Docker images. Even stateful com
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Nicolay Gerold added 1y ago
- AWS: Predictable, and lots of managed services. I use it at my full-time job, so I didn't have to spend too much time figuring things out. The main services I use are EKS, ELB, S3, RDS, IAM and private VPCs.
- Cloudflare: I use it for DDoS protection, DNS, and caching static assets. It currently shaves off 80% of the egress charges from AWS. Not sure
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Nicolay Gerold added 1y ago
- Django: It's like a superpower for solo developers. The longer you work in the industry, the more you appreciate the conventions it uses. A monolithic framework can get you really, really far. To me, it's about predictable software that's fast in every way that matters. By the way, I talk more about this topic on my other blog post Choose Boring Te
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Nicolay Gerold added 1y ago