2025
shipped
live, in production
Live since 2025 · LA podcast studios
Full StackLiveWeb · 2025
Action Park Media
LA podcast studio, public booking + admin for the operations team.
- Role
- Full Stack
- Year
- 2025
- Category
- Web
- Stack
- ReactRedux ToolkitStyled ComponentsNode.jsExpress.jsMongoDBAWSRedisJavaScript
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01 · Outcomes
What the build actually shipped.
Numbers, not adjectives. The stats below are pulled from production. Anything still live, still measured.
End-to-end
front · back · admin
one set of hands
MongoDB
flexible booking
equipment + calendar in one schema
AWS + Redis
infra + cache
session, hot data, lock acquisition
02 · Overview
What it does.
Action Park Media books out studio time the way a hotel books rooms. Public site lets podcasters reserve a studio with their gear list and head count. Admin side lets the team see the calendar, manage equipment, message clients, and reconcile invoices. Built front-to-back, including the boring operational pages that other agencies hand-wave.
03 · Gallery
How it looks.
Mockups of the finished product. Click any shot to open it full-size.
04 · Decisions
The choices that shaped the build.
Tech is downstream of decisions. These are the calls made early enough to compound the right way. The ones a code review six months later still agrees with.
MongoDB for booking + equipment shape
Bookings carry varying shapes per studio — gear lists, room layouts, seat counts, optional add-ons. A document store keeps the per-studio variation flat instead of spinning out a join graph that nobody maintains six months later.
Admin shipped alongside public booking
Operations team needed a single console covering calendar, equipment, client comms, and invoice reconciliation. Built the admin in the same pass as the public site — no second project, no tool-bouncing for the team.
Redis on the hot path
Calendar availability + session state behind Redis. Public booking page reads cached availability without hitting Mongo on every viewport check; lock acquisition on commit goes through the same cache layer so two podcasters can't reserve the same slot.
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