Simon Poole
simon--poole
Senior Software Engineer | Freetrade
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  • Afterburst

    #<User:0x00007d970640b2d8> Eventvods.com


    Our server hosting!

  • MongoDB

    #<User:0x00007d970640a018> Eventvods.com


    Data storage.

  • Jira

    #<User:0x00007d9706408718> Eventvods.com


    Issue tracking, Sprint tracking.

  • Twilio SendGrid

    #<User:0x00007d9706406cd8> Eventvods.com


    Email delivery.

  • gulp

    #<User:0x00007d9706405dd8> Eventvods.com


    Development workflow, SASS compilation.

  • Google Analytics

    #<User:0x00007d9706404618> Eventvods.com


    Data analysis.

  • Slack

    #<User:0x00007d9706403218> Eventvods.com


    Team communication and collaboration.

  • Node.js

    #<User:0x00007d97064021d8> Eventvods.com


    Handles the grunt API work, authentication and providing API <-> Cache <-> Database link.

  • NGINX

    #<User:0x00007d9706401198> Eventvods.com


    Reduce Node.js load by serving static files and Prerender.io for crawlers.

  • AngularJS

    #<User:0x00007d97064003d8> Eventvods.com


    Overall website base and MVC, interactive features.

  • CloudFlare

    #<User:0x00007d970714ec60> Eventvods.com


    As a second layer of caching in front of Cloudfront CDNs and our own API responses. Quite frankly, without Cloudflare's support we'd be bankrupt.

  • Redis

    #<User:0x00007d970714d0e0> Eventvods.com


    Provides a super-fast cache layer between our API and database, allowing us to handle surprise bursts of users without overloading database. Response time on a cached request is usually <20ms processing, compared to ~500ms on a heavy database request.

  • GitHub

    #<User:0x00007d9707147320> Eventvods.com


    Version control, PRs, etc.

  • Sass

    #<User:0x00007d9707143fe0> Eventvods.com


    Speed up CSS development, and separate code into logical files.

  • Amazon S3

    #<User:0x00007d9707159c50> Eventvods.com


    Image uploading and storage.

  • ExpressJS

    #<User:0x00007d9707158ad0> Eventvods.com


    Robust and reliable back-end & API routing.

  • Stack Overflow

    #<User:0x00007d9707157a90> Eventvods.com


    Fixing all the bugs Simon can't!

  • Zeplin

    #<User:0x00007d9707156910> Eventvods.com


    Easy transfer of vector assets to production, spacing information, etc.

  • Sketch

    #<User:0x00007d9707155650> Eventvods.com


    Vector design work.

  • InVision

    #<User:0x00007d9707154250> Eventvods.com


    Interactive design mockups.

  • Git

    #<User:0x00007d970716f500> Eventvods.com


    Version control.

  • Bootstrap

    #<User:0x00007d970716a640> Eventvods.com


    Responsive design utilities.

  • PM2

    #<User:0x00007d9707168ac0> Eventvods.com


    Node.js clustering, load-balancing and performance monitoring.

  • Amazon CloudFront

    #<User:0x00007d9707166e00> Eventvods.com


    Region-specific image caching and content-delivery to speed up page loads and increase responsiveness.

  • ES6

    #<User:0x00007d9707164c40> Eventvods.com


    Server-side code, newer code is ES6 and most old code converted to use the better features.