DevOps is the stuff that lurks under my bed and keeps me at night: DevLog #3

Dramatic title, but there is definitely truth to the statement.

From the beginning, my goal was to make this extension available to anyone, anywhere, at all times. You might think “Oh Sai, doesn’t that mean you have to actually deploy your app to the webstore?”

Yes dear reader, it does mean that. It also means I have to go around miles of red tape set up by the dear dear developers at google.

This hellish landscape of DevOps is shaped my monoliths of docker images and rolling hills of AWS provisioning.

I’ve spent over 10 hours configuring AWS setups and begging my dockerfile to do what I want it to, and only 3 hours logged to show for it.

If only there was a way to log hours outside the IDE ig

So what all did I accomplish?

Well, the backend of my extension runs off a python backend with a postGres database. Yes, I could have used something like supabase, but thats for cowards, real ones build their own.

I’m just kidding, I chose not to use Supabase because:

1. I wanted to build my full-stack skills
2. Costs need to be low, i’m kinda broke
3. I could have more freedom with my database if I used my own configuration

So wish me luck as I push through the long haul of making my project prod-ready