The Adventures and Misadventures of Building a Trivia app with Vapor

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A trivia backend for a music quiz is built as a monolithic Vapor API using Vapor + Fluent ORM, serving Leaf templates to a web app and an iOS client; data migrations track schema changes over time; development uses a Swift 5.9 Docker image with Swift 5.9 and local-prod parity testing; deployment moves from Heroku (data loss during price changes) to Fly.io with containerized secrets, basic observability via logs and metrics exists and the app runs in production with some leaderboard gaps to fix.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Vapor trivia app
2. 2:14Current architecture overview
3. 7:56Business logic and routing
4. 10:10Adventures in Vapor development
5. 15:10Deployment challenges and solutions
6. 18:00Observability in production
7. 19:03Future improvements and recap

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