The Tech Stack of a Cloud Computing Startup

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Tailwind CSS

For the frontend we're going a bit against the grain of current webdev trends and bet on Nuxt (of course with Typescript and Tailwind) as our framework of choice. This is mostly because Lukas (the co-founder) is a long-term Nuxt.js fan and sponsor! Of course, the frontend is completely hosted on sliplane for proper dogfooding, with Cloudflare as a CDN in front because script kiddies like to test their DDOS scripts on us :).

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Website Design 1012 social mentions

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Grafana

To keep tabs on what’s happening, we use Axiom for logs and Grafana for dashboards and alerts. We pipe all of our logs from most services straight into Axiom and have some pre-defined filters there that help us understand whats going on. With Grafana we have a bunch of custom dashboards that help us triage issues, and more importantly, alert us if some metrics are looking off. Without Grafana, Sliplane could not exist!

#Data Dashboard #Data Visualization #Data Analytics 237 social mentions

3

Go Programming Language

I've been writing Go for over 6 years, so picking Go as our main backend language was a no brainer, especially considering the great integrations into the general infra space. Most infra code is go, so that helps a lot. As a framework we use Go-Gin, but honestly we could also just use the native http lib. We also have a tiny part of code in C for some cheeky eBPF stuff we got running. YES, we could write that in Rust, but with eBPF the benefits are negligible and C was the first language I learned as a kid:).

#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 322 social mentions

4

GitHub Actions

We manage infrastructure with Terraform and lean heavily on GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Very simple but it works! Oh and a lot of bash scripts of course.

#DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Developer Tools 306 social mentions

5

Crisp Chat

Of course there are a bunch more tools that we use, some great, some not. Two notable ones are Crisp for customer support and AWS SES for sending out emails (we send out quite a lot of transactional emails!).

#Customer Support #Help Desk #CRM 10 social mentions

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Backblaze

Redis handles caching to keep things quick, and we stash blobs like Backups (encrypted at rest of course) in Backblaze for cheap, dependable object storage.

#Backup And Disaster Recovery #Cloud Storage #Monitoring Tools 42 social mentions