asencis Ltd

We currently use Django Graphene v3 (link below) providing us with a GraphQL adhering to best principles. It is built upon the graphene python project and integrates seemlessly with Django. The project is well maintained, and is in active development. This library gives us excellent support for Relay based GraphQL, subscriptions, mutations and schema.

moon.js could be an interesting alternative for us to some marketing sites - we can build simply and quickly and ship the core at 7kb uncompressed! We are trialling switching to moon.js from Vue.js for our main website at https://asencis.com. So far we have shaved 45% off of the total bundle size.

We develop rapidly with docker-compose orchestrated services, however, for production - we utilise the very best ideas that Kubernetes has to offer: SCALE! We can scale when needed, setting a maximum and minimum level of nodes for each application layer - scaling only when the load balancer needs it. This allowed us to reduce our devops costs by 40% whilst also maintaining an SLA of 99.87%.

Again, for ease of use - we have a library that provides us with none of the often clumsy overheads of managing a CSS framework in-house. We can develop user-interfaces and user-experiences at rapid speed using a pattern library that we can trust. We also have implemented some of the features of the TailwindUI library. However, access to the TailwindUI components is a "paid-for-service", but certainly allows our junior developers to understand good, clean, "compentised" and accessible UI/UX.

prismic.io is the way forward for our development and CMS teams. We can integrate prismic.io in any of our applications via their very neat, self-documenting and well-organised GraphQL API. The WordPress RESTful API is a small miniture nightmare for developers, and sometimes overkill for a simple journal integration into an existing website.

What a debate to wade into - React vs. Vue.js. Prototyping of applications is much, much faster in Vue.js. React, I believe, has a much heavier developer learning experience - so hiring pure Javascript developers allows us to work in a much more framework agnostic way. However, React still has a place within our application stack - it's much more performant out of the box.

For bare-knuckle caching (optimising performance for user centered platforms) Memcache outperforms Redis by a fraction - a fraction that definitely counts at scale and volume. We use Redis for more stability when processing any volume of message queues. When compared to Redis, it uses less overhead memory.