Entertainment Web App

What are you most proud of, and what would you do differently next time?

I learned a lot: about deploying and creating containers, load balancers, microservice design, etc.. Honestly, stuff I already do on the job, but because I've never had to get my hands dirty with the deployments themselves, all of this was completely new to me.

Next time I'll just use API Gateway with AWS lambda to keep costs down. Also, I'm significantly more comfortable with a lot of concepts I only learned in theory.

What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them?

I had to completely redesign my architecture mid-way through backend development because I didn't really know how my auth system would work. Also, getting everything deployed on AWS was a nightmare

Figuring out the routing and how to actually integrate the external data into my project was a bit of a pain, too, but nowhere close to that of AWS

What specific areas of your project would you like help with?

Nothing