Peter Lyons

Technology Stacks

I have used many libraries and programming languages beyond these. These are just some of my current favorites.

Operating System and Database

• Development OS: Linux, Mac OS X
• Deployment OS: Ubuntu or Debian
• Database: PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB and/or DynamoDB

Node Application Stack

• Language: JavaScript
• App Server: Express, hapi
• Views: pug or mustache
• CSS: Stylus
• Tests: tap, mocha, sinon
• Control Flow: async
• Utility: lodash
• Logging: bole
• Configuration: config3
• Linting: eslint, prettier

Streaming Applications

• Confluent Platform (kafka, kafka-connect, kafka-streams)
• clojure

Amazon Web Services

• Lambda
• EC2
• ECS
• IAM
• API Gateway
• DynamoDB
• S3
• CloudFront
• IoT
• SES
• SNS
• Terraform

Browser

• vanilla.js when convenient. Otherwise jQuery.
• browserify for bundling JavaScript for the browser

Devops

• Local VM: Vagrant
• Deployment: Ansible
• Containers: Docker

Utility

• Web Server: nginx
• Monitoring: monit
• Email: exim
• Process Supervision: Upstart scripts and systemd

Infrastructure

• Hosting: Digital Ocean or Amazon EC2
• DNS: NameCheap
• Bulk storage: Amazon S3