About Us

DoughFlow is cross-platform web application for creating complex and insightful visualizations of stock data using an intuitive UI.

Using NextJS allowed us to learn TypeScript and be exposed to a front-end react framework. Because of its recency, relying solely on the docs to develop proved to be a satisfying challenge and limited our use of LLMs.
Django Rest Framework was used to create our back-end API, utilizing its Object Relational Model, we were able to write all of our Database models and interactions in Python rather than SQL.
PostgreSQL served as a robust database engine and object-relational database management system. Its extensive documentation and open-source status allowed us to get off the ground quickly. Our production database has upwards of 5 million rows.
Amazon Web Services was critical to the delivery of, and the hosting for our application. Our most used services included Amazon EC2, IAM Identity Center, and Amazon Secrets Manager.
Our application is succesfully dockerized, scalable, and deployable via our custom GitHub-integrated deployment pipeline written in bash. We also leveraged Docker to create consistent development environments.
Nginx is the core web server that allows our app to reverse proxy client-side requests. It enabled more robust security and easier deployment.