POLITICO Interactive News Developer Guide
  • Introduction
  • 🚨BREAK GLASS 🚨
  • Policies
  • Workflow
    • Meeting
    • Starting a project
    • Keeping a budget
    • Pre-Publish
    • Publishing a project
    • Reviewing a project
  • Guides
    • The POLITICO Interactives Build Suite
      • Getting Set Up
      • Starting An Interactive Page
      • Working Within Your Interactive Project
      • Using Components
      • Making Components
      • Getting Data Into Your Interactive
      • Publishing An Interactive
      • Publishing To GitHub
      • Using Aliases
      • Working With Metadata
      • More Templates
    • JS apps style guide
    • 2018 elections apps style
  • Infrastructure
  • WHOIS
  • Tipsheets
    • Onboarding
    • Welcome to the CMS
      • Logging in to the CMS
      • Ask a web producer
      • Place en embed yourself
      • Hide the cube ad on desktop
    • AI2HTML
    • Useful QGIS and Illustrator Hacks
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  • Static page publishing
  • Hosting
  • Publishing
  • Dynamic web apps
  • In-house apps
  • Public-facing apps
  • Databases

Infrastructure

Brief guide to Interactive News infrastructure

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Last updated 6 years ago

Static page publishing

Hosting

We use Amazon Web Services S3 to host static web pages. We have two buckets under an IT-maintained AWS account, a primary in us-east-1 and a mirror in us-west-2.

The primary bucket serves content through CloudFront and is reverse-proxied by an Akamai cache under .

Publishing

We publish content to these buckets using our in-house . The app includes tasks which handle publishing, cache invalidation and asset minimization and versioning.

Dynamic web apps

In-house apps

Our in-house Django applications tree is hosted by Heroku at . .

Public-facing apps

Public-facing apps are temporary. Wherever possible, try to create static data resources from dynamic databases by pushing JSON to AWS S3, cf. . If possible, use AWS Lambda to handle incoming data. If all else fails, use a library like .

For temporary apps, we can provision Elastic Beanstalk and EC2 instances on our separate Interactives AWS account.

Databases

We maintain a production database in AWS on a separate Amazon account owned by the Interactives Team. It is an AWS RDS t2.medium instance running PostgreSQL 9.6 with automated backups going back 14 days. We do not have a hosted staging database at this time.

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interactives generator app
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See the repo for more details
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