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From my experience - Ruby on Rails, some kind of Javascript framework (Ember, Backbone, Angular), Postgres & Redis as data stores, hosted on Heroku. As you sca
by tomblomfield 12y ago
From my experience - Ruby on Rails, some kind of Javascript framework (Ember, Backbone, Angular), Postgres & Redis as data stores, hosted on Heroku.
As you scale to the point at which Heroku is expensive, move over to AWS.
- johan_larson 12y agoAny idea why Google's App Engine isn't more popular? Too many restrictions? Too expensive? It's used quite a bit by other AngelList companies: App Engine 295 Heroku 969 AWS 388
- atmosx 12y agoBecause Google's App Engine might not be around this time next year, while AWS will most probably be there 10 years from today.
- SkyMarshal 12y agoLock-in. Good hackers want control, portability, and to not have to learn a proprietary platform.