Heroku Customer Video: AltSchool
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Education Innovator Delivers Personalized Learning through a Suite of Apps on Heroku.
AltSchool reinvents K-8 education through a unique, child-centric approach supported by a comprehensive technology platform.
To create their apps, the team used Python on the server side and Node.js for the front-end with a little bit of Go in the mix. They use a number of Heroku Add-ons to extend their implementation including SSL for encryption, Heroku Scheduler for asynchronous scheduling, Deploy Hooks for deployment notification, Redis To Go to manage their Redis instance, New Relic APM and Papertrail for log management, SendGrid for email delivery, the MemCachier service, and Airbrake Bug Tracker.
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