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Recently, I tried to research some of the new CMS/API platforms that have been released in the last year. There was no information. I'm sure these API's have been used thousands of times, but developer has written a review. So I'm left making decisions off marketing pages and PR-driven blog entries. Implementation takes hours that I don't have, I just want a trusted review.
It's really dry territory. You can do well here.
Right now, the only mature ones I know of are all PHP based :/.. I hope that's just me missing something though.
CMS is an interesting case, though. There are 4-5 companies trying to take on WordPress. I could go with the incumbent, but I'd love -- LOVE -- some real dev reviews of that stuff.
Like, where's the fucking unboxing video for developer software?
If you only know of the PHP platforms then I guess you don't play at any significant level in the industry (like most people on HN).
This is actually a candidate for shit hn says.
"Look, this is how many external Saas-dependencies we have and we have no control over our service."
Just saying, because it is one thing to use open source and totally different thing to rely on 3rd party services.
Why do we feel software always has to be built from scratch or use free (open?) stuff? What is wrong in software being built on credible third party services?
Perhaps the sign of a mature industry is when such credible third party partnerships become the norm...
Of course, so would a power outage. So IDK, there's pros and cons, as with everything.
My view point was not from a single individual using the product but from the manufacturers view point.
Sure you can run your own centralized git hosting for your team. Do you really think you could do it better and more reliably than GitHub? Especially for less than $7/mo? And sure you can probably run your own instance of postgres, but how confident are you that your backups are going to be there when you need them? And that it'll be up as much as a dedicated instance of Heroku Postgres? I can probably count the number of people more experienced and qualified than that team (wrt running Postgres) on my fingers and none of them are going to run your database for $50/mo.
For APIs, there is a great resource: http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
For CMSes, there is a dedicated website: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/
Alternatively, you can search GitHub for CMSes from this year: https://github.com/search?q=CMS+created%3A>2013-11-07
Can anyone recommend any resources to better understand the interaction between the aforementioned choices (e.g. why would one company prefer a certain combination of language and infrastructure over a different combination)?
Please make a shortcut for "I use this", so we can add technologies without navigating to their individual pages. I added 10 technologies off the top of my head but I keep being reminded of other ones I use and adding them involves a lot of clicking and back and forth.
Added to favourites!
You should accept that usage monitoring is an inacceptable privacy invasion for many people nowadays and we would like to be informed about that kind of monitoring before using a site, so we can decide if we like it or not.
Or am I talking to a troll (username)?
Went so far as to allow cookies because that fouls up a lot of sites and this looks really interesting, but still no dice. I'll see if updating to 33.0.2 helps.
EDIT: Nope. Clicking any button still has no effect.
Can I ask you how accurate is the data and if/when it's "certified" from the source? From my morning search I found pinterest and rdio using both django and mysql, but this is not reflected in StackShare (missing mysql for pinterest, missing both django, mysql for rdio -- again, I'm not sure about my results, it's just a coincidence that I was searching that).
On another note, it would be great to see a brief description about why the company uses a particular technology.
Regarding your suggestion, every page has this tab: http://stackshare.io/stackshare/stackshare/details. This feature was released today so not many stacks have the details just yet. But we'll be highlighting companies every week and having them fill this out, so stay tuned! Also, feel free to share your stack :)
I'm interested in the 'business' aspect of this site. How do you plan to make profit ? How can you make people come back to the site when the stacks don't change that quickly ?
Which raises another thought: wouldn't some organizations want to keep their stack secret from competitors, since a mature stack is usually the result of years of experienced decision-making.
I scanned the cfwheels repo: https://github.com/cfwheels/cfwheels
picked up almost everything that we're using
EDIT: Just noticed you're behind Virtkick. Funny enough we just listed you last night: http://stackshare.io/virtkick
It doesn't change the main concern, though. leanstack.io was the greatest site to find services.
EDIT: Oh, leanstack.io now redirects to stackshare.io... So I guess this is a rebranding.
All the best Yonas...
Rest this will seriously be helpful to us.
Edit: Its already there but not directly.
Wish I would have went with it seeing how awesome this is.
Edit: Ah, didn't see the trending updates before now. Altering my question a bit: is there a lot of ppl on HN using RSS?
What I want to have out of a feed? Getting the updates/new stacks without daily checking the page.