Meddy’s Tech Stack

Our logo (pretty neat, I agree)

In case you’re wondering what technologies have been used to build Meddy then wonder no more! Here’s a list of technologies that we use. Feel free to email me at yasser@meddy.com if you have any questions.

Backend

• Python — For the Zen
• Django — Backend application framework
• Apache — HTTP Webserver
• PostgreSQL — Database
• Celery — Scheduling tasks and running asynchronous
• Redis — Managing cache and as a message broker for Celery
• ElasticSearch — For searching and indexing our database at high speed and accuracy
• Sentry — For error reporting and bug tracking
• Grafana — For logging and monitoring
• NodeJs — For some simple tasks

Frontend

• Javascript
• AngularJS — Front end web application framework
• SCSS — Styling language
• Bootstrap — Styling framework
• Webpack — Used for build management
• ReactJS
• NextJS

AWS

• EC2 — Provides linux servers for the Django web application
• ElasticBeanstalk — For deployment orchestration and AWS resource management like load balancers and ElasticIPs
• RDS — Runs the PostgreSQL 9.6 engine
• ElastiCache — Hosts Redis
• S3 — Provides storage space for static pages and logs
• CloudWatch — For monitoring and to run events in the application
• CloudFront — CDN and proxy
• Lambda — Used for a variety of things including logging and redirections
• API Gateway — for real time connections and pre-rendering services
• SQS
• Elastic Search

If you’re curious about specifics or would like to see a separate module breakdown let me know in the comments and I’ll accommodate you.