• Keeping VenueBook running: if we are down, we’re not making money, and if we’re not making money

• Collaborating on and building out our key infrastructure topography and security policies, including updating how we manage our configurations

• Designing and deploying key monitors and performance tracking metrics

• Solving some of our toughest technical challenges as we grow our platform: you’ll be at the center of our scale-out

How we get it done:

• We keep our data in PostgreSQL (9.4)

• Most of our server applications are written in Python (2.7)

• Our main framework is Django

• We have some micro-Django / Flask apps hanging out

• We have a lot of JavaScript

• We love React – thank you Team Facebook!

• jQuery, Backbone, gulp, and Browserify help us out a lot too

• We cache with Redis (3.0)

• We deliver our content with nginx (1.8)

• We love Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04