political organizations • fundraising platform for Democratic campaigns and committees and nonprofit organizations • as of today every democratic campaign running for president is relying on ActBlue
2004 from Ruby (Rails in 2005) • process donations and disbursements • compliance • tools for campaigns and nonprofit organizations • why? ACID-compliant (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability)
Rackspace • manage our own PostgreSQL • multiple replicas for performance and redundancy • heavily cached (Fastly) • use Sidekiq for asynchronous processing