| Tech | Reason | Lifecycle |
|---|---|---|
| Java 8 / JVM | ||
| Groovy | Developer friendly especially for scripting, XML and JSON | |
| Egis Kernel | Created before CDI and friends were released, Migrate to CDI API - To consider migration to full CDI kernel. | |
| Hibernate / JPA | Need to support multiple DB platforms | |
| Jetty | Easily embeddable | |
| Hazelcast | Easily embeddable, more activity than JGroups | |
| PostgreSQL / MySQL / SQL Server | 3 most common db platforms | |
| Lucene | Easily embeddable, supports single node and custom filters for advanced ACL's | |
| TestNG | Better support for listeners, ignores etc. | |
| C# | Most widely used and supported language for deskop apps | EOL |
| Electron | Better support for cross platform desktop applications | |
| Golang | A better alternative to C and C++ | |
| Python | Developer friendly, available by default on Ubuntu | |
| Markdown | Ease of onboarding / migration between platforms - Easily diffable for PR's | |
| Gitbook | Most mature, open source platform - Outgrew MkDocs | |
| ES6 / Babel | Coffeescript is on life support, Typescript support for duck typing, importing plugins etc is more limited | |
| NPM | Migrated to yarn | EOL |
| Yarn | Faster and more progressive than NPM 4/5 | |
| Gulp | Faster than grunt with better and more up to date plugins | |
Selenium/Webdriver |
For E2E tests - Use with caution | |
| Karma / Jasmine | ||
ExtJS |
Lack of backwards compatibility, unfriendly licensing for app builders | EOL |
Angular (1 or 2) |
Too complex to learn / debug - Lack of backwards compatibility: Vue or React are better options | EOL |
Vue.js |
To test and consider - values align to our culutral manifesto - primarily KISS | Future |
WebComponents / Polymer 2.0 |
Standards compliant, but the ecosystem is not very large yet | Future |
React |
Very large ecosystem - but perhaps to heavyweight | Future |
| Tech | Use | Reason | Lifecycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gradle | Supports everything maven does, but is more customizble/plugable while also being less verbose | ||
| Ant | Aging technology, but still works ok - migrate to gradle/npm when any serious dev occurs | EOL | |
| Babel / Gulp | |||
| npm | javascript artificact repository | ||
| Github | Code repository, review, documentation hosting | ||
| CircleCI | Primary build environment | Cheaper then Travis CI - Supports MacOSX | |
| AppVeyor | Build server for windows based projects | Only SaaS CI with windows support | |
| Jenkins | Build server for old client projects | Limited support for autoscaling - requires non trivial maintenance of slaves, Migrate to CircleCI | EOL |
| Codacy | Code linting | Support for Java and JS | |
| Codecov | Code coverage | Migrate to codacy to unify quality metrics | EOL |
| Amazon S3 | Artifact repo | S3 is dependency free and low cost with +- 1GB per day of artifacts | |
| Nexus / JFrog | Artifact repo | To consider as a addon / replacement to S3 | Future |
| Infrastructure | Use | |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu LTS | Server OS | |
| Docker | Used in builds and dev/test environments - being assessed for production usage | |
| PostgreSQL | SaaS primary database due to better data integrity and friendlier licensing | |
| ansible | cluster management and local machine environment | |
| VMWare ESXi | Virtualization provider | |
| VMWare vCenter | Appliance proved very unreliable, esx-cli replicates 90% of functions | EOL |
| Amazon EC2 | DR "site" - we spin up, deploy and restore backups from S3 | |
| Amazon S3 | Backups for both blobs and database backups. 1 bucket per tenant/client | |
| Amazon DynomoDB | Basic storage of tenants, used in DR to know which clients to restore | |
| Cloudflare | There are local DNS and cache edge servers, Upgradability to WAF is nice to have | |
| Google Drive | WIP specs, on project completion docs should be archived to PT | |
| Sendgrid | SMTP server | |
| Google Apps | Email (IMAP/POP) provider | |
| Hipchat | Team chatrooms - Migrating to Slack | EOL |
| Discord | Great platform that makes quick meetings/standups great | |
| Trello | High level dev and sales tracking | |
| Fortigate | Firewall and IPS - Reasonable prices, Out of the box HA and VPN | |
| Dell | Reasonable prices, especially for HDD's, iDRAC works fairly well | |
| Docker Hub | Hosting of docker images |
| Tech | Use | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| Dripstat | JVM and transaction monitoring | Provides free monitoring for small JVM's and stepped levels for higher. |
| Plumbr | JVM and transaction monitoring | EOL, Root cause of 2 - 3 downtime events, inflexible pricing |
| Newrelic | Server monitoring | EOL |
| Pagerduty | ||
| Nodegrid | Website monitoring | |
| health dashboard | Health tracking of servers, network devices and apps | Nagios and similar tools are complex and difficult to setup & maintain / SaaS tools are expensive when you get to many small endpoints to track |