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ZapierCompany

Workflow automation platform connecting web apps.

7 things

CelerySoftware

loved

Celery truly is a best in class piece of software, as is RabbitMQ.

Zapier on Celery and RabbitMQ for scheduled background tasks

zapier.com ↗·2012-01-27Wrong?

DjangoSoftware

liked

The key word here is familiarity, and Django was an obvious choice.

Zapier's early tech stack post on choosing Django

zapier.com ↗·2012-01-27Wrong?

NginxSoftware

liked

nginx was a great call, its a lot easier to set up and maintain over Apache (especially for non-PHP apps), and Gunicorn works brilliant in conjunction.

Zapier on choosing nginx and Gunicorn in its early stack

zapier.com ↗·2012-01-27Wrong?

KEDASoftware

recommended

However, this is a lot of work and why reinvent the wheel when there’s KEDA.

Zapier on using KEDA to scale Kubernetes workers on RabbitMQ queue length

zapier.com ↗·2022-02-03Wrong?

RabbitMQSoftware

uses

RabbitMQ is at the heart of Zap processing at Zapier.

Zapier on RabbitMQ at the heart of Zap processing

zapier.com ↗·2022-02-03Wrong?

ReactSoftware

uses

We rely heavily on CodeMirror for some of the more complex input widgets we need, and use React + Redux to do much of the heavy lifting for the uber-powerful Zap editor.

Zapier on its Zap editor frontend moving from Backbone to React

zapier.com ↗·2016-03-02Wrong?

MySQLSoftware

uses

We debated on using PostgreSQL, but decided to go with MySQL, again, for familiarity's sake we need to just get up and going.

Zapier on choosing MySQL over PostgreSQL for familiarity

zapier.com ↗·2012-01-27Wrong?

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