Racket for E-Commerce

Great post, beautiful site (and fast!). One passage caught my eye: > Deployments are not zero-downtime at this point and I’m planning to switch to an AB-style deployment model once the site has enough traffic to warrant it Do you mean blue-green deployment ( https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/deploy-apps/blue-gree... )? In any case note that you can do that even with just a single compute–just run both instances of the app in the same compute, on different ports–say, 3000 and 3001–and use a reverse…

Author here. It's strange seeing this on HN this morning! We shut down the site in march for non-business reasons. Despite what a couple comments here are implying, sales were indeed made and quite a sizeable number of customers were sad to see us go. If I were to do it again, I wouldn't change a thing. As stated in the article, the "code parts" remained the easiest parts throughout.