Most people will just choose a small set of tools they have experience with, or those that have been recommended (friends, salespeople, horror stories). If you

Most people will just choose a small set of tools they have experience with, or those that have been recommended (friends, salespeople, horror stories). If you care about doing better, rank the benefits and consequences of using them to take a decision. When time is not a constraint you should build a theory of which tools are the best to solve the problem, put them together in a quick way and test them (i.e. do performance testing) to find the bottlenecks and weak spots. Make plan B, C, D... to migrate to other tools in case something goes wrong. Learn from the experience, and hope you will choose better in the next project.