Back End Tech

Web Servers | App Servers | APIs | Databases Auth Services

Web Servers

• NGINX Also: Kubernetes Ingress fame. Asynch non-blocking.
• Apache HTTPD Honored ancestor. Preinstalled on CentOS, Ubuntu. Good for shared envs by using .htaccess files.
• HAProxy
• AWS Elastic Load Balancing

App Servers

• Tomcat
• Flask Python. No asynch.
  • DJango
• Hugo GoLang
• WordPress PHP
• Laravel PHP

APIs

• Swagger API definition
• OpenAPI
• REST
  • Express.js NodeJS
  • FastAPI Async. Highest performing Python.
  • Spring Boot JAX-RS (rest easy?) REST.
    • Eclipse Jersey (JAX-RS)
• GraphQL
  • Apollo
  • GraphiQL IDE
• API Gateways
  • AWS API Gateway
  • GCP Apigee
• Serverless
  • AWS Lambda
  • GCP Firebase Cloud Functions
• Service Mesh
  • Istio

Databases

• NoSQL

  • MongoDB OG NoSQL. Multicloud option.
  • AWS DynamoDB NoSQL. Key-value. Serverless.
  • Apache Cassandra NoSQL. Distributed. Fault tolerant. Elastic.

• In Memory

  • Redis Cache, message broker. Lua scripting. See also AWS Elasticache.
  • Memcached key-value. Aimpler than Redis.
  • AWS Elasticache Managed Redis or Memcached. Which?

• RDMS

  • PostgresSQL I pick this over MySQL/Maria because the license is cleaner. PostgresSQL 9.3 and higher has a NoSQL option.
  • MS SQLServer RDMS. I’ve used this over the years at various jobs. See also Azure SQL.
  • Oracle RDMS. I used this at Reed College. I wrote a PLSQL stored procedure. You can also write them in Java. Powerful but super expensive, largely legacy.
  • AWS Aurora RDMS. MySQL and PostgresSQL compatible. Oracle killer.
  • SQLite: embedded in web client or IOT devices. PostgresSQL syntax.

• Graph DBs

  • Neo4J
  • AWS Neptune

• Object Storage and Warehouse

  • AWS S3 with Athena
  • AWS S3 with Select
  • AWS Redshift
  • GCP BigQuery

Auth Services

• Okta
• Auth0 Bought by Okta.
• AWS Cognito
• GCP Firebase
• LDAP
• MS Active Directory
• Google Cloud Directory Sync