Matt Shields
mattboston
Recent Tech Decisions
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Tools mattboston is Following
Amazon CloudFront
aws.amazon.com/cloudfront
Amazon CloudFront can be used to deliver your entire website, including dynamic, static, streaming, and int...
CloudFlare
cloudflare.com
Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected...
Amazon SES
aws.amazon.com/ses
Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, insta...
Amazon EC2
aws.amazon.com/ec2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale...
Rackspace Cloud ...
rackspace.com/cloud/public/...
Cloud Servers is based on OpenStack, the open and scalable operating system for building public and private...
Linode
linode.com
Get a server running in minutes with your choice of Linux distro, resources, and node location.
Amazon S3
aws.amazon.com/s3
Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrie...
GitHub
github.com
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over t...
Bitbucket
bitbucket.org
Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free priva...
Amazon Route 53
aws.amazon.com/route53
Amazon Route 53 is designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost effective way ...
Google Drive
developers.google.com/drive
Keep photos, stories, designs, drawings, recordings, videos, and more. Your first 15 GB of storage are free...
Jira
atlassian.com/software/jira
Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units...
AWS Elastic Bean...
aws.amazon.com/elasticbeans...
Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacit...
Amazon EBS
aws.amazon.com/ebs
Amazon EBS volumes are network-attached, and persist independently from the life of an instance. Amazon EBS...
Amazon RDS
aws.amazon.com/rds
Amazon RDS gives you access to the capabilities of a familiar MySQL, Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server databas...
G Suite
gsuite.google.com
An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, D...
DigitalOcean
digitalocean.com
We take the complexities out of cloud hosting by offering blazing fast, on-demand SSD cloud servers, straig...
Authy
authy.com
We make the best rated Two-Factor Authentication smartphone app for consumers, a Rest API for developers an...
Amazon VPC
aws.amazon.com/vpc
You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP addr...
Amazon SNS
aws.amazon.com/sns
Amazon Simple Notification Service makes it simple and cost-effective to push to mobile devices such as iPh...
Amazon CloudWatch
aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch
It helps you gain system-wide visibility into resource utilization, application performance, and operationa...
Amazon WorkSpaces
aws.amazon.com/workspaces
With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can provision a high-quality desktop experience ...
AWS IAM
aws.amazon.com/iam
It enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely. Using IAM, you can create and manag...
Puppet Labs
puppetlabs.com
Puppet is an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems and performs adminis...
Google Compute E...
cloud.google.com/products/c...
Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines that run on Google infrastructure. Google...
TextMate
macromates.com
TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX unde...
Vim
vim.org
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a mor...
Notepad++
notepad-plus-plus.org
Notepad++ is a free (as in "free speech" and also as in "free beer") source code editor and Notepad replace...
Atom
atom.io
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but...
Fabric
fabfile.org
Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application ...
Ansible
ansible.com
Ansible is an IT automation tool. It can configure systems, deploy software, and orchestrate more advanced ...
Salt
saltstack.com/community
Salt is a new approach to infrastructure management. Easy enough to get running in minutes, scalable enough...
Confluence
atlassian.com/software/conf...
Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instea...
VirtualBox
virtualbox.org
VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. N...
Nagios
nagios.org
Nagios is a host/service/network monitoring program written in C and released under the GNU General Public...
Elasticsearch
elastic.co/products/elastic...
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of storing data and searching i...
GitLab
about.gitlab.com
GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprise...
PHP
php.net
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Python
python.org
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for it...
Django
djangoproject.com
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
Flask
flask.pocoo.org
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
MySQL
mysql.com
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Langu...
Microsoft SQL Se...
microsoft.com/sqlserver
Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and da...
PostgreSQL
postgresql.org
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of...
MongoDB
mongodb.com
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema....
Redis
redis.io
Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and mess...
Memcached
memcached.org
Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from result...
SVN (Subversion)
subversion.apache.org
Subversion exists to be universally recognized and adopted as an open-source, centralized version control s...
Git
git-scm.com
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small t...
Apache HTTP Server
httpd.apache.org
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a ...
NGINX
nginx.org
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoe...
Passenger
phusionpassenger.com
Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It t...
Microsoft IIS
iis.net
Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server is a flexible, secure and manageable Web server for ...
RabbitMQ
rabbitmq.com
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe p...
ZeroMQ
zeromq.org
The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with feature...
RRDtool
oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool
RRDtool lets you log and analyze the data you gather from all kinds of data-sources (DS). The data analysis...
Cacti
cacti.net
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and g...
Gunicorn
gunicorn.org
Gunicorn is a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly comp...
HAProxy
haproxy.org
HAProxy (High Availability Proxy) is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, lo...
lighttpd
lighttpd.net
lighttpd has a very low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load. Its advan...
Apache Tomcat
tomcat.apache.org
Apache Tomcat powers numerous large-scale, mission-critical web applications across a diverse range of indu...
Xcode
developer.apple.com/xcode
The Xcode IDE is at the center of the Apple development experience. Tightly integrated with the Cocoa and C...
Zookeeper
zookeeper.apache.org
A centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronizat...
Solr
solr.apache.org
Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. It...
Lucene
lucene.apache.org
Lucene Core, our flagship sub-project, provides Java-based indexing and search technology, as well as spell...
Tower
git-tower.com
Use all of Git's powerful feature set - in a GUI that makes you more productive.
MariaDB
mariadb.com
Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliv...
PyCharm
jetbrains.com/pycharm
PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, ...
Sensu
sensu.io
Sensu is the future-proof solution for multi-cloud monitoring at scale. The Sensu monitoring event pipeline...
Debian
debian.org
Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel or the FreeBSD kernel. Linux is a piece of software started b...
Logstash
logstash.net
Logstash is a tool for managing events and logs. You can use it to collect logs, parse them, and store them...
Icinga
icinga.org
It monitors availability and performance, gives you simple access to relevant data and raises alerts to kee...
Zabbix
zabbix.com
Zabbix is a mature and effortless enterprise-class open source monitoring solution for network monitoring a...
Kibana
elastic.co/kibana
Kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch....
Amazon Aurora
aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed and availability of...
Prometheus
prometheus.io
Prometheus is a systems and service monitoring system. It collects metrics from configured targets at given...
AWS Elastic Load...
aws.amazon.com/elasticloadb...
With Elastic Load Balancing, you can add and remove EC2 instances as your needs change without disrupting t...
GitHub Enterprise
enterprise.github.com
GitHub Enterprise lets developers use the tools they love across the development process with support for p...
Wagtail
wagtail.io
Wagtail is a Django content management system built originally for the Royal College of Art and focused on ...
CentOS
centos.org
The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ec...
Gmail
mail.google.com
An easy to use email app that saves you time and keeps your messages safe. Get your messages instantly via ...
AWS CodeCommit
aws.amazon.com/codecommit
CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrast...
Locust
locust.io
Locust is an easy-to-use, distributed, user load testing tool. Intended for load testing web sites (or othe...
Ubuntu
ubuntu.com
Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It also means ‘I am what I am because of wh...
Amazon Elasticse...
aws.amazon.com/elasticsearc...
Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to deploy, secure, and o...
Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - L...
Bootstrap Studio
bootstrapstudio.io
Bootstrap Studio has an intuitive drag and drop interface, which is designed to make you more productive.
GitKraken
gitkraken.com
The downright luxurious Git client for Windows, Mac and Linux. Cross-platform, 100% standalone, and free.
Linux Mint
linuxmint.com
The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both po...
Fedora
getfedora.org
Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open sourc...
Amazon Chime
chime.aws
Amazon Chime is a communications service that transforms online meetings with a secure, easy-to-use applica...
LocalStack
localstack.cloud
LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.
Amazon EFS
aws.amazon.com/efs
Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file system...
Envoy
envoyproxy.io
Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services an...