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🔑 Key App tech/services

For the Forem tech stack we use:

• Puma as the web server
• PostgreSQL as the primary database and for Full Text Search
• Redis to store cached data
• Fastly for edge caching
• Cloudinary and/or Imgproxy for image manipulation/serving
• Honeybadger for error monitoring
• Sidekiq and Active Job for background workers
• Ransack for internal search
• Redcarpet and Rouge to parse Markdown
• Carrierwave, Fog and AWS S3 for image upload/storage
• InstantClick (a modified version) instead of Turbolinks to accelerate navigation
• ImageMagick to manipulate images on upload
• Heroku for hosting
• Sendgrid for transactional mailing
• Mailchimp for marketing/outreach emails
• CounterCulture to keep track of association counts (counter caches)
• Rolify for role management
• Pundit for authorization to proxy traffic
• Preact for some of the frontend. See the Frontend Guide for more info
• Docusaurus for beautiful and SEO-friendly documentation
• Git for version control
• GitHub for hosting the source code and issue tracking