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C# on Azure Functions for backend. Azure managed SQL Server for storage. Azure managed Redis for caching. Azure Application Insights for monitoring. Forest Admin front end. Quite a pleasant experience overall for what I need.
It's so bizarre (but somewhat expected) to see only two people in this thread mention any Microsoft technologies at all.
C# on Azure Functions for backend. Azure managed SQL Server for storage. Azure managed Redis for caching. Azure Application Insights for monitoring. Forest Admin front end. Quite a pleasant experience overall for what I need.
I run https://allaboutberlin.com It runs on Craft CMS inside Docker on DigitalOcean. I chose Craft because it lets you create custom post types with custom fields really easily. The matrix fields let you have rich text mixed with other widgets. All of this was a pain in WordPress. On the other hand, using not-WordPress means that you're on your own. You can't hammer a bunch of plugins together and call it a day. The…
I run https://allaboutberlin.com It runs on Craft CMS inside Docker on DigitalOcean. I chose Craft because it lets you create custom post types with custom fields really easily. The matrix fields let you have rich text mixed with other widgets. All of this was a pain in WordPress. On the other hand, using not-WordPress means that you're on your own. You can't hammer a bunch of plugins together and call it a day. The…
Frameworks/platforms: Django/DRF, Node, VueJS. DB: PostgreSQL, running on DigitalOcean (vps), server provisioning and deployments using Ansible.
For https://musicbox.com.hr (music streaming service for bars, restaurants, shops, etc):
Django/DRF with PostgreSQL for the API, VueJS for the frontend apps, Go for the streaming service, Redis, Go on RaspberryPi for specialized hw players. Hosting on Hetzner and DigitalOcean (vps + managed dbs), using Tailscale to have everything in a single VPN. Deployment with Ansible.
I find Ansible to be a hidden gem here. Nowadays its mostly overlooked for fancy k8s setups, but especially for small number of servers (a few), there's a lot less moving parts to worry about (and they're all explicit in the single yaml file).
I run https://chessmadra.com React + Typescript frontend Rust backend Architecture stuff: kubernetes, Kong, postgres, all hosted on DO
You're going to love to hate this: Best choice I made was using WordPress! I run https://rpgplayground.com , a web tool to make RPG games without coding (6000+ user published games) The app itself is written in Haxe. My website is WordPress. Haxe because it will be easy to port to any device. Why was WordPress the best choice? Basically everything you need has a plugin. I needed a forum: bbPress I needed a community…
As a CTO/developer who works with Ruby/Rails and hates php, I think you made the best choice! Especially as a solo who needs these types of “auxillary” functionality. Wordpress is crazy productive in this way. Their plugin ecosystem, ease of upgrades, admin interface with roles is amazing. And the extensibility using filters and hooks is insane. I sometimes wish other libraries could offer this customization abstraction, even though it’s hard to reason about hooks and filters and it’s weird to get used to. But so powerful.
Ionic/Angular with Firebase.
Gets you most of the way there doesn't it. Surprising what you can build on the Firebase platform
Also when you think from a 1 man operation, I don't need to think about scaling, certs, auth (much), etc. It's common enough I can hire a freelancer to work on a new feature.
I do miss though the raw simplicity of bottlepy, cork and jinja2 templates which was my old stack.