Two developers journey into the dark side of technology. Talk delivered for Code Collective and It @ ñ UK as part of the techcity talks initiative

1. Why and how we
built teowaki.com
two developers journey into
the dark side of software
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javier ramirez
@supercoco9

12. Recurring
Revenue:
I need a product

13. the product
on the side

15. Your idea is
not so
valuable

16. Your team is

19. broken!

20. https://teowaki.com
@teowaki

22. set up in the UK
is just £15*
* don't need to do it until you start operating

23. External services we pay for:
wordpress £0.70
AWS, google, Maxmind GeoIP < £1
ICO £3
pivotal tracker £3.75
Domain and SSL wildcard certificate £10
flexible co-working space £30
digital ocean £34
free services:
trello,new relic,pingdom,rollbar, google Apps,
google Analytics

24. £83 per
month*
* zero costs in software licenses

25. Salaries* are
the largest
expense
* try to hire part-time at first

28. Hypermedia RESTful API (Ruby on Rails)
Kind-of-responsive web application (AngularJS)
Background jobs queue (Redis)
Background workers (Ruby on Rails)
Postgresql master/slave, for text search too
Redis master/slave (with LUA scripting)
Memcached

29. Devops
Ansible for provisioning
Monit and Munin for server health check
Google Bigquery for bigdata processing
S3 and Glacier for backups (every minute for
postgresql, every hour for Redis and stats)

30. If you love your developers, please tell them about
https://teowaki.com
Cheers!
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javier ramirez
j@teowaki.com