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Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by moltar »

jwilliams wrote: post #89
moltar wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How’s your experience with CDK? I’ve been looking at it a few times and it felt a bit raw and not well documented yet. Did you have a solid AWS experience prior?

CDK experience has been mixed. Prior to GA it was all over the place, but it's gotten more stable now. A lot of cloudformation quirks leak directly into CDK. And I've learned to be patient (e.g. one change at a time, roll though all environments, do adds and deletes separately...). Right now using it is 50/50 for me. I'm assuming as more construct libraries become commonplace that will help the most (up until recentl…

Thank you for the feedback!

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by xcubic »

nerdbeere wrote: post #45

I run a SaaS page builder that generates amp websites for my customers. It's targeted towards small agencies that currently rely on wordpress. -- Backend: Node.js hosted on AWS ECS (Docker) and Lambda Frontend: JavaScript, React Database: Postgres (AWS RDS; thinking about switching to serverless aurora) As for delivering my clients sites I recently switched from cloudfront to stackpath (DNS, CDN) because the pricing…

Care to share?

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

bdibs wrote: post #12

My current venture ( https://www.podalong.com ) is using Elixir/Phoenix Framework/Vue.js for the front end, a couple various Golang services for background stuff, and Elasticsearch for search. This was my first project using Elixir/Phoenix and it’s been really fantastic, I couldn’t recommend it enough for being very productive and it’s fairly performant to boot. The mobile app was built using Flutter (again my first…

Very cool. How has the learning process been for you? Where did you start and have there been any particularly challenging parts?

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

Elixr, Phoenix, Postgres, Ubuntu and Gitlab CI/CD, hosted on Digital Ocean.

In my case, since I'm teaching this stack (at https://alchemist.camp), it was a great choice. I think there's a bit more credibility in using what I'm teaching instead of just using an off-the-shelf solution, and it's also been a source of inspiration for some of the content, too.

Being able to handle more visitors and traffic than I'll ever likely get on a total infrastructure cost of just over $7/month, is great, too.

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by crgwbr »

I run a low traffic, but fairly mission-critical web app for ~100 active users. Backend is Python 3, Django, Django Channels, Django Rest Framework. Postgres for DB, Redis as a cache and message queue. Front end is React and Typescript. Everything runs in Nginx proxied Docker containers on an Ubuntu EC2 box, except for Postgres (which is RDS).

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by mamcx »

I have used more than 10 languages now, but I'm moving to Rust. Apart of that:

- PostgreSQL + Sqlite. I try to use both for everything: Log analysis, reports, dashboards, etc + obvious crud stuff. - Python3 for scripting - If have not choice: HTML, JS + Vue - Simple vultr/digital ocean vps

Rust allow me to get rid of docker (just deploy a binary! Like in my Delphi days!) and other complex stuff. I'm near "copy-paste" deployment now.

My only fancy tech now is using azure pipelines for compile across platforms (like android + ios).

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by aprdm »

metafunctor wrote: post #8

Django, Python 3, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, uWSGI, nginx, Celery, RabbitMQ, Ubuntu, Ansible, Sentry.io, Gitlab, Hetzner, Cloudflare, Create React App. Effects on success: I already knew this stack (no time lost learning new tech), can run with a very tight budget (suitable for starting a business on the side). And, obviously, this is a great stack that will scale far into the future if needed.

Pretty much mine as well.

Would maybe add Docker (without K8s or any orchestration).

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by ooooak »

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #94

Elixr, Phoenix, Postgres, Ubuntu and Gitlab CI/CD, hosted on Digital Ocean. In my case, since I'm teaching this stack (at https://alchemist.camp ), it was a great choice. I think there's a bit more credibility in using what I'm teaching instead of just using an off-the-shelf solution, and it's also been a source of inspiration for some of the content, too. Being able to handle more visitors and traffic than I'll ever…

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Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by bluewalt »

metafunctor wrote: post #8

Django, Python 3, Django REST Framework, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, uWSGI, nginx, Celery, RabbitMQ, Ubuntu, Ansible, Sentry.io, Gitlab, Hetzner, Cloudflare, Create React App. Effects on success: I already knew this stack (no time lost learning new tech), can run with a very tight budget (suitable for starting a business on the side). And, obviously, this is a great stack that will scale far into the future if needed.

Almost the same: Django/Python/DRF/PgSQL. But:

- I use Redis with Celery instead of RabbitMQ (not because it's better, but can be picked for other usages like caching, etc.)

- I use Heroku to ease deployment instead of having to deal with servers (but I'd like to add serverless to my stack, Heroku is not optimal for SPA deployment)

- Angular instead of React (mostly because at the time, I absolutely wanted to use Ionic)

Effects on success: fast to run, very reliable back-end, no need to be expert in Javascript and tooling (because angular/ionic is very opinionated)

Bad effect: need to deal with 2 languages in parallel can be exhausting sometimes.

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