A cosmetics forum with 2 million monthly visitors built with laravel and jquery.
Completely re-made this forum style Turkish website with 2 million monthly visitors. The biggest challenge was improving response times and after researching I decided that I needed to learn and use Redis and not cache entire responses but instead specific items in customized ways. For the front-end I wanted an IOS and Android-friendly website and developed cross-compatible functionality from scratch such as infinite scrolls, history integrated modals and popups. Built a fast and robust custom search algorithm without using any third-party services. Content moderation (flags, edits, unpublishing of posts, authorizing new users to become authors) was done manually and I built a fully-automatic system whereby certain qualified users were given privileges to vote on these issues. Also built a complex backend for moderation off all the content. The final big challenge was moving thousands of posts, threads, messages, users, etc. from an old CakePHP MySQL installation to the new system.
Jquery
Laravel
PHP
PostgreSQL
Redis
LESS
HTML5 History API
Socket.io
Gulp
Google Tag Manager
Google Doubleclick
AWS SES
AWS S3
New Relic
Nginx
Cloudflare