We've moved from the old world of the LAMP stack to one of many different solutions optimized at solving different problems. It is more about the problem, your

We've moved from the old world of the LAMP stack to one of many different solutions optimized at solving different problems. It is more about the problem, your style and your teams programming background. As a long time Ruby developer who's always in search of faster, better, cheaper I've found the following: - Rails is still the safe, moderately fast to develop in do-anything framework. It excels at CRUD and will have a maintained library available for pretty much anything you need to do. It however is relatively slow and Ruby comparatively sucks at anything async. - Node and its supporting frameworks are fantastic at async and smaller single page type web apps. But it's a bit trickier than Rails or similar to structure and manage larger code bases. NPM is awesome for web development, better than Gems. Packages in general are not as mature as Ruby Gems and will be some time until they are. ORMs are quite weak compared to what you have in Rails (see Mongoose vs Mongoid). My current stack of choice is Rails+Bootstrap for CRUD, Node+Restify for APIs (or Express if you need to throw in a little HTML as well), MongoDB for the DB, Redis for caching/pubsub/jobs. I'd use Postgres instead of MongoDB if I had an application where data integrity is paramount above all. All the supporting processes like job workers I write in Ruby (Sidekiq is great). I'd like to use Go and I'm keeping an eye out for an application for it -- something that needs really high performance.