It's critical. One piece of advice though, don't worry about what the hottest tech stack at the time is, worry about how to solve the problems your customers ar

It's critical. One piece of advice though, don't worry about what the hottest tech stack at the time is, worry about how to solve the problems your customers are facing in an efficient and cost effective way. We thought about the type of data our customers would generate and how they would need to connect to our service to determine a tech stack that made sense. It was also important for us to pick a stack that as we grew we could find cost effective developers to work for us.