Nov 14, 2016Learning Devops & AWS on the Job: Building and Scaling a Service
Or, what I wish you I knew before building Repl.it's code execution service new drinking game "name that AWS service logo" — TJ Holowaychuk (@tjholowaychuk) March 23, 2016 I, by no means, identify as a devops or even a backend engineer. Most of my professional experience has been equally split between frontend/product and developer tooling. I also primarily learn by doing and bias towards simplicity and MVPs -- almost to a fault. So when I approached building a service on AWS I took a very simple path and increased complexity as the service scaled up. Here are all the steps that I went through before getting to something that I'm not totally ashamed of. eval.repl.it
- Jun 24, 2016
API Docs
[Update Oct 2022: We have retired our API, we are excited by our previous work but we do not have the resources to support this at the moment.] Repl.it's code execution API is an HTTP and WebSocket endpoint that you connect to and send code to execute. You can connect from any device or browser and start executing code. This guide will describe the concepts behind the service, how it can be used, and provide a step-by-step guide for signing up and trying out the service! Code Execution You're probably here because you want to run some user code in an app or website somewhere. Our customers use the Repl.it API for many different things including: In-browser coding environments In-browser coding exercises