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There's also StackShare which presents things in a nicer UI. For example, this is Trello's and Stackshare's stack:

Thank you for the great link to StackShare!

Bit OT but I see slackshare use keen.io (custom analytics). Has anyone else played with it and if so do you have any thoughts to offer?

I've been looking around for a custom analytics platform that I can pump a load of events into and interrogate later however I want. Of all the ones I've looked at, keen.io looks the most interesting from a developer flexibility stand point, but that's just from the outside. If anyone has experience I'd love to hear it.

Full disclosure: Keen is a promoted service on StackShare, StackShare is a customer of Keen.

We use Keen IO for all our user metrics. Specifically their CommonWeb library https://github.com/keen/common-web, which automatically tracks clicks, pageviews, form submits and a few other actions. Keen has been great for us, particularly because we don't yet know exactly what we want to track, it's constantly changing. So having one place that houses all our events then being able to query that as we see fit and build dashboards (http://keen.github.io/dashboards/) has been really helpful. You can see some more feedback from other people here: http://stackshare.io/keen-io.

Thank you, I appreciate the info. The model that they use feels like exactly the sort of thing I'm after - and the fact that there are layers to go on top (like this common web thing) is testament to the general flexibility. Will definitely be giving it a try.

Part of the goal was to condense the infomration to allow viewing companies side by side or quick browsing. I need to improve the search/filter to support that better though, and probably add a few more visual elements.

Obviously not comprehensive, but I think it's interesting how relatively rare AngularJS is on that list. By contrast, I work in a shop that's gone in heavy for Angular on new projects over the last year or so, so it's easy for me to think it's taken over the world (and wonder why :/).

To that point, it's interesting how many claim that Backbone is yesterday's tech and that we are now 2 or 3 iterations of javascript frameworks past Backbone, yet most of these large sites are still using Backbone! It's possible that a lot of the sites would use something other than Backbone if they were built today, but it's clear that Backbone will be around for some time.

Probably not in modern web companies, but there are still COBOL stacks around.

Yesterday or not, Backbone works. Loads fast. And is dead simple to use.

It's hard to tell the jokes from the mistakes sometimes...

http://i.imgur.com/z9rdEzV.png

Assume you are referring to the mix of front end frameworks. That does look pretty funny, but the BBC uses different front-end frameworks on different parts of their site - some have been getting rebuilt with new while others were built a while ago.

eg. angular.js is used on the CMS side - Curation Kit, React JS is used on the new BBC Mobile Homepage, and ExtJS is used on their shop - http://shop.bbc.com/us/page/home. Mousing over should reveal some of the notes per technology - I could probably make that info easier to find.

Not just that, but 10+ different ad and analytics providers, and no fewer than five backend languages (PHP, Node, Java, Ruby, Scala). I'm being sort of unfair, as the BBC is a large, diverse organization that has been around for a long time, and I would be surprised if any one person has to deal with all of the listed technologies. It just happened to be the first of several large and redundant "full stacks" listed on an obnoxious-to-navigate site.

There's also built with > http://builtwith.com/angularjobs.com

Thanks for the post. Any feedback is appreciated! The site started out as a way for myself to keep track of technologies and usage I read about. After a while using markdown didnt work. Excel worked well but wanted to share what I found as well and a open google sheets doc didnt feel right :)

I believe Instagram uses Cassandra as well as Redis. http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/100758229719/mi...

Thanks!

All I see is a dark gray page. It appears that this requires JavaScript in order to display tables, text and links, which makes sense, since pure HTML doesn't support tables, text and links. Wait a second…

I should probably add themes and/or improve some of the contrast to improve readability. Good point.

I wish it was not doing like search on technology. You choose "C" and everything with letter "C" comes, *sigh.

I wish it didnt do that too. I need to improve the search/filter support. Need to implement typeahead. pen to other suggestions.

what about google ?

There's also http://www.perfectleads.com but that's oriented more towards lead prospecting for sales.

There's also http://builtwith.com , but that's also specifically for sales leads.

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