HaloSir is the new server for Halo Word, the English -> Chinese dictionary as an extension for Google Chrome.
HaloSir is based on Elixir/Phoenix, and use DETS from Erlang/OTP as storage instead of Redis. The main reason is Redis is consuming too much memory and we don't need that speed of an in-memory database. This is also a good practice ground of developing and maintaining a full Elixir app/service.
The OTP release building process is automated through CircleCI. Output tarballs are stored here.
To deploy HaloSir, just:
- Extract the tarball
- Put runtime configs under
{tarball root}/config/secret.exs, which should replace secret keys and any other production settings - Put existing cache under
{tarball root}/dataif exist