Rohith Nandakumar
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Recent Tech Decisions
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  • Sentry

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    TBD

  • Amazon S3

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    Saving images/data if required.

  • Mailchimp

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    Spam em!

  • Hadoop

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    TBD. Good to have I think. Analytics on loads of data, recommendations?

  • Twilio SendGrid

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    Welcome to transactional emails.

  • jQuery

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    Website magic

  • Bitbucket

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    Free version control

  • Redis

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    Loooong term for performance.. Super fast but not suited for prototyping

  • Piwik

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    Or Mixpanel? Requires setting up I think.

  • Optimizely

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    TBD

  • Stripe

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    For future payments in US, Europe?

  • Pingdom

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    TBD

  • Datadog

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    TBD

  • NGINX

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    Good to have. 10K+ concurrent requests, load balancing etc.

  • Node.js

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    Fast and easy to code. Hopefully. Development with Java is painfully slow.

  • MongoDB

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    Because you don't know what data you will be querying for. Perfectly suited for rapid prototyping. Altering tables in traditional, relational DBMS is painfully expensive and slow.

    Performance is not great though. Ah who cares!

  • InVision

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    Design and wireframing?

  • Google Analytics

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    Basic website monitoring

  • Mixpanel

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    or Piwik? TBD

  • Twilio

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    SMS verifications anyone?

  • Swift

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    iOS App

  • Firebase

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    User management

  • PostgreSQL

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    If a relational DBMS is required.

  • Amazon EC2

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    Servers!!