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For Etom, a side project. We wanted to test an idea for a future and bigger project.

What Etom does is searching places. Right now, it leverages the Google Maps API. For that, we found a React component that makes this integration easy because using Google Maps API is not possible via normal API requests.

You kind of need a map to work as a proxy between the software and Google Maps API.

We hate configuration(coming from Rails world) so also decided to use Create React App because setting up a React app, with all the toys, it's a hard job.

Thanks to all the people behind Create React App it's easier to start any React application.

We also chose a module called Reactstrap which is Bootstrap UI in React components.

An important thing in this side project(and in the bigger project plan) is to measure visitor through out the app. For that we researched and found that Keen was a good choice(very good free tier limits) and also it is very simple to setup and real simple to send data to

Slack and Trello are our defaults tools to comunicate ideas and discuss topics, so, no brainer using them as well for this project.

I used Keen because it was an extension that could be added through Heroku. It was very easy to set up application metrics and dashboards with them. Keen

Easily track user interaction without having to worry about an opinionated service getting in the way. Keen

Keen IO allows me to have a big data infrastructure without needing to set up and maintain the hardware and software. Their SDKs (available in many languages, my faves are Python and JavaScript) allow data to be stored, sliced and diced, and then visualized. Keen

Having watched the Keen.IO guys grow their company since it's inception, I think we can safely say that they are one of the best out there in terms of general analytics and storage. Keen

The timing and build data that is generated from the monitored builds is stored in the Keen.io database using its Python library, the analysis and visualisation Javascript SDK powers the Trends dashboard. Keen

We use Keen to aggregate and provide reports for our platform metrics such as total requests and bandwidth usage. Keen

Activity feeds, event logging, business analytics. Keen has been incredibly valuable in its ease of use. Keen