Thu 06 October 2022

Hey! In this blog post, we'll explain the pepy.tech architecture and show you all the pieces that make pepy.tech work.

The infrastructure of pepy.tech is simple. We want to maintain it simple to reduce costs and improve maintainability. In the next subsections, you can find all the components that we use.

CDN

A Content Delivery Network or CDN is a service that is used to distribute content. We mainly use it to cache static content like images or JavaScript files and distribute them more easily to the users.

In our case, almost 70% of the requests are served by the CDN! This takes a lot of pressure off from the backend servers.

Backend server

The backend server is the piece of the software that provides all the answers to the client, like the download stats. Also, the backend is in charge to update the downloads daily. The backend mainly runs all the Python code that you can see in our repository.

The servers are provided by DigitalOcean, and it has only 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM. With this small server, we serve all the requests to the world!

NewRelic

NewRelic is a service that helps us monitor all of our services. Here we have all the metrics, like CPU usage, disk usage, etc. We have some alerts that some of this metrics are not correct, we get alerted.

Hopefully, you got an idea of what services do we use in pepy.tech. If you have any question, contact me on twitter @psincraian.

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