A new #blogpost is online about the development in @easyticketsapp during the last week as well as a server unavailability.
https://easy-tickets.app/blog/neue-funktionen-serverausfall-und-statistiken/

#indiedev #easyticketsapp

On of my customers of the #SaaS platform #easyticketsapp has currently the situation, that someone jerk, kidd, or fool is booking thousends of tickets over the platform with disposable email addresses.

I already implemented an email confirmation flow to mitigate such things but with disposable addresses it get's harder.

Currently I'm blocking the IP which worked yesterday but today there are again bookings.

It never get's boring 😵

I’m starting with the preparation to move the whole infrastructure for #easyticketsapp away from #googlecloud to #hetzner.

Currently thinking of using #coolifyio as #paas solution and have the whole thing running on 2 (3) #vps

I need:

- #postgresql
- #django application
- #djangoq2 worker

Plus maybe #sonarqube or similar for code quality and #devsecops.

In addition I want to also setup a QA environment since I’m missing that currently.

With developing #easyticketsapp one goal is to be as data frugal and #dataprivacy respecting as possible. Not always an easy undertaking.
I could manage to

- no third party cookies
- static files hosted on own server
- analytics via self hosted #matomoanalytics
- anonymizing data after 3 months after a event

Still to do:

- migrating infrastructure away from #googlecloud to a German / Europe based provider
- individual fields for different data needs for events

For #easyticketsapp I implemented something to store activities that happened on a ticket model in #django.

Know I searched found out there is already a package available that does exactly what I need and more 😩

https://django-activity-stream.readthedocs.io/

I'm currently using #github #actions as my #cicd pipeline tool to deploy #easyticketsapp.

I would like to learn more about #devsecops and set up a new pipeline.

Are there any best practices and recommended #foss tools?

I know #jenkins for CI-CD but how about #dependency tracking and the #security part?

#cybersecurity #django #saas

Was up early today (could not sleep anymore). So I used the time to update some dependencies for easy-tickets.app and merged a PR that I was holding back, since I wanted to deploy it during not so busy hours.

Everything went well. Now enjoying the morning with the family.

#BuildInPublic #easyticketsapp #django