08 October 2016

What's the best Technology Stack?

WE ARE bombarded daily with an endless flow of "cool stuff" that no web developer or programmer could even use in a lifetime. So, what is the best technology stack to go with these days?

Server? Classic virtualized Linux? A "cloud app" server? Heroku? AWS? Azure?Database? Use Hadoop clusters? MySQL? Redis? NoSQL? Relational?Primary programming stack? PHP/jscript? RoR? Python? Java?

Use any frameworks for the API or build from scratch? Phalcon? Django? Node.js?Frontend framework? ext.js? Angularjs? ionic? None/Bootstrap?

If building a an app TODAY, what would you use and why?