CharityVid allows anybody to donate to a charity of their choice absolutely free, no credit card required. The only thing we ask is that they watch a short sponsored YouTube video, and that's it.
I've been working on CharityVid for a couple months now, and now finally I'm putting it out there for the world to see. Building it has been extremely interesting from both a business and technical perspective, and I plan to start a mini series here about some of the key technical details that make up the site. I plan on covering:
- using an AWS load balancer
- server performance configurations
- Zero downtime deploys
- front end performance (page load) optimizations
- logging, and server monitoring
- unit testing
and a few more topics (I'll probably combine a few together). CharityVid has been my first large project to make it all the way from inception to production and I can't wait to see how it turns out.
Check it out! Let me know what you think.
