Gentlent

Amazon's Simple Email Service provides a clear and simple billing structure, a generous free contingent, high scalability, and a full Rest-API.

The Gentlent Tech Team made lots of updates within the past year. The biggest one being our database:

We decided to migrate our #PostgreSQL -based database systems to a custom implementation of #Cassandra . This allows us to integrate our product data perfectly in a system that just makes sense. High availability and scalability are supported out of the box.

We decided to go with the Google Cloud Platform due to its intuitive management dashboard, simple and cheap pricing and high reputation. CloudFlare keeps traffic costs under control and allows us to be more flexible with security inside the clusters.

Our most used programming languages are JavaScript / Node.js for it's lightweight and fast use, PHP because everyone knows it, HTML5 because you can't live without it and Sass to write great CSS. Occasionally, we use nginx as a web server and proxy, React for our UX, PostgreSQL as fast relational database, Ubuntu as server OS, ES6 and TypeScript for Node, Google Compute Engine for our infrastructure, and Socket.IO and Electron for specific use cases. We also use Python for some of our backends.