What's a Covie?
Plaid...the bank login thing in VEnmo...for insurance
First commit: 2020-07-16
Goal: Current but Kinda boring
Backend
- Infrastructure
- AWS (us-east-2, us-west-2)
- ECS on Fargate + ECR
- A dash of Lambda
- RDS Aurora, logical replication
- S3
- Secrets Manager
- Code
- 82k+ LOC PHP (8.1; 65k code, 17k tests)
- ~500 LOC JS
- ~650 LOC Golang
Frontend
- All NextJS (React), JS for now (TypeScript later)
- Embed (13k LOC)
- Dashboard (13k LOC)
- Brochureware site (6k LOC)
- Hosting
- Embed: Static build into nginx hosted on ECS behind CloudFront
- Other two projects: Vercel (embed will be migrated soon)
- Testing (embed only for now)
- Jest for component tests, plus API payload generation
- Cypress for E2E
Repos (on GitHub)
- Embed + backend in one repo (7300 commits on main branch)
- Dashboard (1460 commits)
- Brochureware site (353 commits)
- (minimal) PHP SDK
- OAS Docs (Stoplight)
Source Control + Automation
- GitHub + GitHub Actions
- Automated
- Unit + integration tests
- Release tagging (GitHub + Jira)
- Image build + push to ECR (auth via OIDC, plus some cache-y bits)
- Deploy to Vercel
- Manual
- ECS service updates
- Database migrations
A Real-World Startup Stack - Dog Days 2022
By Ian Littman
