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Tech stack

Curious about our tech stack? LFG Directory is powered by:

Django: The awesome Python web framework.
PostgreSQL: The dreamy open source database.
Redis: Our caching, task queuing, and session manager.
Elasticsearch: Search engine.
Foundation: Our frontend framework.
Apache: our webserver.
Mailgun: for sending emails.
SimpleMDE: The Javascript Markdown editor. (Although we sanitize input from this as the creators stubbornly refuse to disable html)
Fullcalendar: for beautiful calendar displays.
Sentry: for error capture and analysis.

We utilize several wonderful community Django applications to help with portions of the functionality. These include:

django-allauth: for social login via Discord.
django-rules: Powerful object permission management.
django-compressor: For helping manage static assets.
django-q: for asynchronous task processing.
django-haystack: for managing search.
django-scheduler: provides the base models that our calendaring tools are based on.
django-notifications: for managing notifications.
django-anymail: for integration with Mailgun
django-postman: for in-app messaging.
django-avatar: for managing user avatars.
django-star-ratings: for managing user ratings of games.
django-foundation-formtags: for easy integration with our frontend.
django-allow-cidr: to help with our internal AWS health checks.
django-model-utils: So useful.
django-braces: incredibly handy view mixins.
django-taggit: For tag management.
django-environ: for helping to keep LFG a twelve-factor app.

LFG Directory is hosted in an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).

All connections require HTTPS.
All of the data in the database is encrypted both in transmission and at rest.
Our database and web servers reside in private subnets and application severs are only accessible to the outside world via our AWS load balancer.
Our database is replicated automatically to an additional availability zone in case of hardware failure.
Only public data such as our RPG Catalog data and public game data is indexed for search.