HTML, CSS, JavaScript
The front-end used the standard and basic stack. Keeping the code as minimal and lightweight as possible.
FightDB.org system walkthrough
Architecture overview
This page shows how the site moves from a browser request, through the VPS and Go application, into PostgreSQL, and how the Python data pipeline keeps the database up to date.
At a glance
Each layer of the stack
Go with mostly standard packages
The app uses net/http for routing and
database/sql with pgx for database work.
PostgreSQL
All of the data is stored in a Postgres server. Serving the queries in the backend using Go.
Python scraper pipeline
Python scripts use BeautifulSoup 4 to scrape source sites and
psycopg2 to normalize and insert fresh data.
Hetzner VPS on Ubuntu
DNS is set up through cloudflare, with caddy being the server to handle HTTPS and certificates. Go runs behind a reverse proxy on the VPS.
Interactive map