Fielding Digital

We opted for MongoDB over SQL-based databases to give us as much flexibility as possible over our data structures as we develop and grow. We've also found the document-oriented approach to be much easier to work with.

Atlas also gives us a powerful, fast database solution with an excellent free tier and takes a component of infrastructure management away from us.

We opted for bootstrap for our MVP development as it allowed for quick and rapid development whilst looking clean and modern. It has components which cover most of our requirements, and it was also easy to get up and running and scales well.

It's also relatively easy to build upon, for example adding other UI libraries, and customising.

We use Render to host our monolith backend API service as it has a generous free tier, allowing for almost constant up-time, and great CI/CD with Github.

We were originally deployed on Heroku but with the removal of the free tier, deployed to Render.