EPISODE 107 #meteor
Meteor Cloud Is a Full Service Hosting Solution for Meteor Apps
with Filipe Névola
EPISODE 106 #rails
CompanyCam Helps Contractors Document Their Job
with Chad Wilken
EPISODE 105 #flask
TinyPilotKVM Lets You Remote Control Your Server from Your Browser
with Michael Lynch
EPISODE 104 #rails
uscreen Is a Platform That Helps Content Creators Build a Business
with Nick Savrov
EPISODE 103 #rails
Great Question Makes It Easy for Teams to Perform Customer Research
with PJ Murray
EPISODE 102 #rails
Robot Accounts AI Provides a System to Let You Categorize Invoices
with Josh Kinabrew
EPISODE 101 #rails
Fundraze Is a Flexible Fund Raising and Campaign Management Service
with CJ Avilla
EPISODE 100 #jekyll
Running in Production Is a Podcast Where Devs Chat about Tech Stacks
with Nick Janetakis
EPISODE 099 #rails
A Custom Electronic Medical Record System for an Ophthalmology Clinic
with Jason Swett
EPISODE 098 #rails
Games Directory Lets You Sync Your Games and Achievements in 1 Place
with Vlad Radulescu
EPISODE 097 #rails
School Bus Hero Helps School Bus Drivers and Aides Find a Job
with Dieter Lunn
EPISODE 096 #rails
Hitobito Helps You Manage Communities with Complex Group Hierarchies
with Matthias Viehweger
EPISODE 095 #koa
Submotion Helps You Manage Access Control for Your SAAS Subscriptions
with Kristian Dupont
EPISODE 094 #django
HorseRecords Lets You Record Everything about Your Horses
with Andy Ide
EPISODE 093 #rails
Politico Europe Is a Business to Business News and Data Service
with Karl Roos
EPISODE 092 #akka
Couchmate Is a Social Chat Platform for Viewers of Live TV
with Matt Oliver
EPISODE 091 #ansible
Managing 40+ Servers in a Data Center at a Medical University
with Maciej Delmanowski
EPISODE 090 #rails
Avo Is a Framework for Creating Ruby on Rails Admin Panels
with Adrian Marin
EPISODE 089 #express
Optidash Is an Image Processing and Optimization API
with Przemek Matylla
EPISODE 088 #fastapi
CourseMaker Is an Online Course Builder for Technical Makers
with Chris Samiullah
EPISODE 087 #phoenix
Statuspal Is a Service for Hosted Status Pages and Monitoring
with Eduardo Messuti
EPISODE 086 #node
QA Wolf Helps You Create Automated Browser Tests as You Use Your Site
with Jon Perl
EPISODE 085 #rails
ListenAddict Lets You Subscribe to a Person Like You Would to a Show
with David Parker
EPISODE 084 #phoenix
PriceTable Mixes in Sales Automation, Project Management and Invoicing
with Ege Ersoz
EPISODE 083 #express
SongRender Lets You Create Audio Visualizer Videos from Audio Clips
with Jake Lazaroff
EPISODE 082 #pylons
Dropbox Gives You Secure Access to All of Your Files
with Utsav Shah
EPISODE 081 #jupyter
Mito Is a JupyterLab Extension to Make Python Data Analysis Easy
with Nate Rush
EPISODE 080 #laravel
10Web Is an Automated WordPress Hosting Platform
with Tigran Nazaryan
EPISODE 079 #golang
NanoVMs Let You Run Your Apps Faster and Safer with Unikernels
with Ian Eyberg
EPISODE 078 #flask
AbstractCRE Helps Extract Key Data from Real Estate Property Documents
with Cole Simmons
EPISODE 077 #rails
Podia Has Everything You Need to Sell Online Courses
with Jason Charnes
EPISODE 076 #django
Building an Internal App to Track 1,200+ VMs and Servers at REI
with Sean Callaway
EPISODE 075 #django
Password Space Is a Password Manager for Families
with Nick Hnatiw
EPISODE 074 #laravel
Pod Hunt Helps You Find Great Podcast Episodes to Listen To
with Mubashar Iqbal
EPISODE 073 #django
Joyful Gifts Is an Automated Gift Giving Service
with Jonathan Adly
EPISODE 072
This Episode Was Removed Because It's under Review
with Anders Hovmöller
EPISODE 071 #rails
DNSimple Is a Simple and Secure Domain Management Service
with Anthony Eden
EPISODE 070 #django
Buttondown Lets You Build, Grow and Launch Your Email Newsletter
with Justin Duke
EPISODE 069 #django
An Internal Financial Planning Service for Season Ticket Holders
with Denis Stepanenko
EPISODE 068 #phoenix
TextDB Is a Simple Way to Share Small Amounts of Data
with Ian Davidson
EPISODE 067 #django
Muze Is a Freeform iOS Chat Application
with Dash Winterson
EPISODE 066 #flask
MixedCRM Is a Sales and CRM Tool for Real Estate Property Developers
with Nidal Alhariri
EPISODE 065 #django
CareerVillage Is a Community Where Students Can Get Career Advice
with Jared Chung
EPISODE 064 #phoenix
Stacker Is an Internal Tool to Stitch Together Microservices Responses
with Sascha Wolf
EPISODE 063 #phoenix
Changelog.com Is a News and Podcast Platform for Developers
with Jerod Santo & Gerhard Lazu
EPISODE 062 #express
Browserless Gives You Fast, Scalable and Reliable Browser Automation
with Joel Griffith
EPISODE 061 #phoenix
Monitor Oban Jobs in Real Time with Oban Web Pro
with Parker Selbert
EPISODE 060 #flask
Fantasy Football Data Pros Teaches You Python through Fantasy Football
with Ben Dominguez
EPISODE 059 #django
Creative Hire Helps Match Designers and Companies to Various Jobs
with Kshitij Sinha
EPISODE 058 #django
Brightpath Is a Formative School Assessment Tool
with Kye Russell
EPISODE 057 #django
Crowdbotics Is a React Native + Django App Builder / Deployer
with Anand Kulkarni
EPISODE 056 #django
Divio Is a Cloud Platform for Managing Web Applications
with Daniele Procida
EPISODE 055 #django
Daughterly Care Is a CRM to Help Care for the Elderly
with Barton Ip
EPISODE 054 #django
Paparazzi Accessories Is an E-commerce Store That Sells Jewelry
with Dan Purcell
EPISODE 053 #django
An Inventory Management System for an E-commerce Platform
with Galen Rice
EPISODE 052 #express
A Video Course Platform Built for a Course Called Modern DevTools
with Umar Hansa
EPISODE 051 #django
An E-commerce Site That Lets Folks Buy Online Courses
with Dalton Polhill
EPISODE 050 #django
Tracking Games Played on a Flight Simulator
with Paul Cappaert
EPISODE 049 #django
Collecting and Processing Genomic Data to Help Cure Rare Diseases
with Dan Kolbman
EPISODE 048 #django
Social Hiring Platform for the Food and Beverage Industry
with Colin McFaul
EPISODE 047 #django
A Platform to Buy Gift Cards for Eco-Friendly Products
with Antonin Grêlé
EPISODE 046 #flask
Custom Hardware to Provide Affordable Email to the African Congo
with Clemens Wolff & Shaun Bathgate
EPISODE 045 #django
Skillwell Is a Video Platform That Helps You Unlock Physical Skills
with John Debs
EPISODE 044 #django
An Internal Employee Management App Focused on Schools
with Chris Goodwin
EPISODE 043 #django
DataWellness Helps Organizations Stay Safe and Compliant
with Dave Merwin
EPISODE 042 #golang
Creating a Video Course Hosting Platform to Learn Go
with Jon Calhoun
EPISODE 041 #django
Litt NYC Lets You Easily Find Friends and Things to Do
with Harry Moreno
EPISODE 040 #django
A Site to View 3D Scans of Cars with Twinner
with Jesse Hunt
EPISODE 039 #django
Place Card Me Lets You Create Printable Place Cards Online
with Cory Zue
EPISODE 038 #django
The CMS Front End for Lionel Trains' Products
with Mark Miscavage
EPISODE 037 #django
A Real Estate Order and Appraisal System for a Small Business
with Austin Lewis
EPISODE 036 #django
Passiv Is a Portfolio Management and Automation Platform
with Brendan Wood
EPISODE 035 #static-site
Determine What Your Toilet Paper Supply Is Based on Your Usage
with Ben Sassoon
EPISODE 034 #django
Confectionery Connect Is an E-commerce Video Course Marketplace
with Sean Parsons
EPISODE 033 #django
Zego Lets You Easily Buy Insurance by the Hour
with Stuart Kelly
EPISODE 032 #django
Building a Site Around Thousands of Diary Entries from Samuel Pepys
with Phil Gyford
EPISODE 031 #phoenix
Mux Is an API Based Platform That Lets You Process and Stream Videos
with Dylan Jhaveri
EPISODE 030 #flask
TradeRev Is a Machine Learning Vehicle Appraisal / Auctioning System
with Amit Jain
EPISODE 029 #flask
Cover Tuner Uses NLP to Help Improve Your Cover Letters
with Saad Malik
EPISODE 028 #dotnet
Easily Find, Reproduce and Track Your JavaScript Errors with TrackJS
with Todd Gardner
EPISODE 027 #python
A College Professor Self Hosts Jupyter Hub for His Students
with Peter Kazarinoff
EPISODE 026 #flask
Contextualise Is a Tool That Lets You Easily Organize Information
with Brett Kromkamp
EPISODE 025 #flask
A Cryptocurrency Powered E-commerce Store Called Strmline
with Ty Cooper
EPISODE 024 #rails
CovidNearMe Tracks Cases and Has Info for Citizens / Health Workers
with Scott Johnson
EPISODE 023 #flask
Taleas Is a Cute, Quirky, Random and Slightly Weird Webcomic
with Seth Black
EPISODE 022 #flask
Creating a Non-profit Food Ordering Service for Inner City Kids In LA
with Francisco Barcena
EPISODE 021 #phoenix
Get to Know Your Coworkers through Simple QA with This Slack App
with Adam Conrad
EPISODE 020 #flask
A Weather Analysis Service for Regular People and Meteorologists
with Nick Gregory
EPISODE 019 #phoenix
Hex.pm Is Elixir's Official Package Manager
with Eric Meadows-Jönsson
EPISODE 018 #phoenix
6DOS Helps You Explore Your Personal Network
with Henry Popp
EPISODE 017 #rails
Smart Music Helps Musicians Practice More Efficiently
with Julien Blanchard
EPISODE 016 #rails
VA.gov Provides an API to Get Information about Veterans
with Charley Stran
EPISODE 015 #express
Kernl.us Helps WordPress Plugin and Theme Developers Manage Updates
with Jack Slingerland
EPISODE 014 #phoenix
ScrollKeeper Is a Collaboration Tool for Researchers
with Ian Butler
EPISODE 013 #phoenix
Remote.com Helps You Find Remote Jobs Anywhere
with Marcelo Lebre
EPISODE 012 #rails
Learn Ruby on Rails through Screencast Tutorials on GoRails
with Chris Oliver
EPISODE 011 #phoenix
Logflare Is a Log Management and Event Analytics Platform
with Chase Granberry
EPISODE 010 #flask
ScholarPack Runs 10% of the UK's Primary Schools and Gets Huge Traffic
with Gareth Thomas
EPISODE 009 #golang
Load Balance, Secure and Observe Your Web Applications with Nova ADC
with Dave Blakey
EPISODE 008 #koa
Openship Is a Shopify App for Drop Shipping and Order Fulfillment
with Junaid Kabani
EPISODE 007 #dotnet-core
Discworld Disorganizer Is a Discworld Book Series Search Engine
with Jamie Taylor
EPISODE 006 #golang
Qvault Is an Open Source Tool to Manage Passwords and Crypto Keys
with Lane Wagner
EPISODE 005 #flask
EarlyBrd Alerts You of New Job Board Postings So You Can Bid Faster
with Stetson Blake
EPISODE 004 #django
Real Python Is One of the Largest Python Learning Platforms Around
with Dan Bader
EPISODE 003 #phoenix
Learn Elixir and Phoenix by Building Things Over at Alchemist Camp
with Mark
EPISODE 002 #rails
A Video Based AWS Certificate Training Platform Called Exam Pro
with Andrew Brown
EPISODE 001 #phoenix
Serving Medical University Employees, Health Officials and Students
with Gabriel "OvermindDL1" Robertson
EPISODE 000
Preview of What's to Come
Are you running a site in production? I'd love to hear your story, become a guest.
NanoVMs Let You Run Your Apps Faster and Safer with Unikernels
Ian Eyberg
https://nanovms.com/
In this episode of Running in Production, Ian Eyberg goes over creating a Unikernel with C as well as host a few sites supporting his tool with Go. It’s hosted on Google Cloud and their own data center. Nanos has been available since 2020.
Ian talks about what a Unikernel is, their open source tools and how they manage their own services. This episode has a healthy mix between background knowledge on Unikernels and how they (as a company) set up their infrastructure.
It’s worth pointing out you can run your existing applications in a Unikernel without having to change how it’s written and they support running them on most major hosting providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, your own hardware, etc.).
Topics Include
- 1:44 – What is a Unikernel? How is it different than a traditional VM or container?
- 7:58 – There’s a free and open source tool and an optional SAAS offering
- 10:07 – How it’s possible to build a new deployable golden image in 2 minutes
- 12:12 – Motivation to use Go for building the surrounding sites and services
- 16:51 – Certain organizations are pushing decent traffic through their Unikernel driven apps
- 19:02 – How you can run a multi-service app with Nanos (web + worker + db + cache, etc.)
- 22:59 – ops.city and nanos.org are a single Go binary / 1 Unikernel driven app
- 25:37 – The nanovms.com site is a bit more involved and has Stripe integration
- 28:08 – I never heard of the term Unikernel until today
- 30:20 – nginx isn’t sitting in front of the Go app and how Unikernels can be so fast
- 40:29 – With a Unikernel approach you can easily move between hosting providers
- 44:23 – SSL certs are handled directly by the Go app for their sites
- 49:56 – nanos.org and ops.city use GCP and nanovms.com is on their own hardware
- 54:26 – Why they went with their own data center for hosting and their server specs / costs
- 1:02:02 – Terraform, Ansible and similar tools aren’t being used to set up anything
- 1:04:21 – What the deployment process looks like for their services
- 1:10:40 – You can run all of this on a Raspberry Pi 4
- 1:13:15 – What does the development process look like with a Unikernel driven app?
- 1:16:21 – Dealing with secrets in production
- 1:17:55 – Databases are backed up regularly and how logs are handled
- 1:23:52 – Getting notified of errors and up-time reports from updown.io
- 1:25:52 – Mailgun is used for sending out transactional emails
- 1:26:45 – Best tips? Keep it simple (seriously)
- 1:30:05 – Thoughts on the Plan9 operating system
- 1:34:06 – You don’t need to change how you write your apps to run them in a Unikernel
- 1:40:07 – The code for Nanos is open source on GitHub
Links
📄 References
- https://ops.city/
- https://nanos.org/
- https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
- https://deepdiscountservers.com/
- https://he.net/
- https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257
⚙️ Tech Stack
🛠 Libraries Used
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Questions
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Apr 19, 2021
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