What Does Your Tech Stack Optimise For? 💭

[nelsonic]

There are many variables to consider when selecting a Technology Stack here are our Top 10:

1. Customer Satisfaction - do the people using your product/service love or hate using it?
2. Time to Market - time between ideas and delivering useable features; shorter is better.
3. Total Cost of Ownership - how much does it cost to develop, deploy, run and maintain the app?
4. Reliability / Availability - does your App perform reliably with the required service level e.g: 99.99% uptime?
5. Developer Experience - Happiness and effectiveness at delivering features reliably.
6. Ecosystem - are there good packages/modules available to extend the tech if needed?
7. Scalability - does the technology need to serve just one person, millions or even billions of people?
8. Hiring - availability of competent/experienced people who are available for the price you want to pay.
9. Maintainability - how easy/difficult is it to maintain the tech over its useful life?
10. Performance - the amount of useful work accomplished by a computer system. Relevant to conserve/maximise computing resources.

Note: the order in which your company/team place these competing priorities
will inform your selection of technology. ⬇️

Performance often becomes a "my language is faster than yours" pointless debate and loses track of other important factors.
If your server is ultra-fast but frontend has horrible UX or uptime and nobody uses it, you are just wasting time/money.

Other factors we consider as "given" are Security, Privacy and Standards: nelsonic/nelsonic.github.io#54 (comment)