I'm a fan of Django, so my ideal stack looks something like this: * puppet - managing server packages / infrastructure * monit - monitoring server processe

I'm a fan of Django, so my ideal stack looks something like this: * puppet - managing server packages / infrastructure * monit - monitoring server processes / fixing things * django - primary web framework and ORM * amazon mysql - it's hosted, and works via plug-ins with Django * amazon s3 - storing static assets (images, css, javascript, etc.) * amazon elastic load balancer - for scaling incoming HTTP requests across multiple web app servers * amazon autoscale - for spinning up new web app servers to handle spikes in traffic * rabbitmq - message queueing * celery - processing async tasks in a robust fashion. must have * memcahed - no explanation necessary * git * fabric for deploying software * jenkins for testing / building software * nginx for buffering elastic load balancing requests to web app servers