Tech What? THE Tech Stack We Use for All Our $10k-100k Enterprise-level Projects — and Why This One?

One tech stack with the best pros/cons ratio has crystallized out in all our hundreds of client projects.

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Tech stack: Definition

A tech stack is a set of technologies — including programming languages, frameworks, databases, tools, and APIs — to develop an application (in our case a web-based or web app).

The choice of tech stack can affect various things:

• performance (e.g., page loading times)
• developing effort
• SEO — search engine optimization (!)
• economic costs (e.g., hosting)
• stability and reliability
• skill set required
• …and many more (minor or individual) factors

Later in this article, we will discuss these points in more detail using the example of our tech stack — but first, let’s take a look at what a web tech stack consists of.

Layers of a web tech stack

For the sake of not making things unnecessarily complicated, we will limit this to three layers of a web app: