Felipe Figueroa
amenadiel
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  • NGINX

    #<User:0x00007f077b898c10> InstaGIS


    Our webserver of choice. Fast, accurate, powerful, rock solid.

  • Bootstrap

    #<User:0x00007f077b897a90> InstaGIS


    It provides basic structure to all our html elements.

  • PHP

    #<User:0x00007f077b896cd0> InstaGIS


    Our app backend

  • Amazon EC2

    #<User:0x00007f077b8953d0> InstaGIS


    It provides our cluster in a VPC

  • Amazon S3

    #<User:0x00007f077b893ad0> InstaGIS


    Store backups and attachments.

  • Backbone.js

    #<User:0x00007f077b8921d0> InstaGIS


    Our front entities are all Backbone material

  • Socket.IO

    #<User:0x00007f077b891050> InstaGIS


    websocket for realtime communication and map sync

  • Handlebars.js

    #<User:0x00007f077bc5fc90> InstaGIS


    Our front templates are handlebars made, compiled before build

  • GitHub

    #<User:0x00007f077bc5dfd0> InstaGIS


    Out main repos are in Github

  • Git

    #<User:0x00007f077bc5ca90> InstaGIS


    Ouy version control of choice

  • npm

    #<User:0x00007f077bc5b550> InstaGIS


    Manage dependencies such as grunt and all its plugins. Also, in the API server, manages Loopbacks dependencies and ours.

  • Grunt

    #<User:0x00007f077bc5a290> InstaGIS


    Automation of minification, compiling handlebars, updating bower.

  • Fabric

    #<User:0x00007f077bc58d50> InstaGIS


    Command line deploys

  • Codacy

    #<User:0x00007f077bc57090> InstaGIS


    Review our code quality

  • Skype

    #<User:0x00007f077bc55650> InstaGIS


    Communication with international customers

  • Trello

    #<User:0x00007f077bc544d0> InstaGIS


    Subprojects, or projects for specific customers, have their own trello board

  • Intercom

    #<User:0x00007f077bc52450> InstaGIS


    We provide realtime support and customer announcements.

  • CloudFlare

    #<User:0x00007f077bc50790> InstaGIS


    We manage our DNSs, precaché our static files and block out malicious traffic

  • Google Analytics

    #<User:0x00007f077c28eda0> InstaGIS


    We track site visitors with GA

  • Underscore

    #<User:0x00007f077c28dd60> InstaGIS


    Truth is we use lodash

  • D3.js

    #<User:0x00007f077c28caa0> InstaGIS


    Graphics and data visualization. Scaling and sampling of big data groups.

  • jQuery UI

    #<User:0x00007f077c28b6a0> InstaGIS


    Mostly used to provide a basis for needed plugins.

  • PostgreSQL

    #<User:0x00007f077c28a2a0> InstaGIS


    Relational database for our business

  • MongoDB

    #<User:0x00007f077c288ea0> InstaGIS


    Big datasets not likely to need joins with another dataset go in Mongo to offload Postgresql

  • JavaScript

    #<User:0x00007f077c287d20> InstaGIS


    All our front code and an increasing share on our backend. We love JS.

  • Node.js

    #<User:0x00007f077c286a60> InstaGIS


    The backend server in our API, we believe this is the future.

  • jQuery

    #<User:0x00007f077c2858e0> InstaGIS


    The best known DOM manipulation library we know of. Still not a silver buller.

    Also, its Deferred object is very useful.