To avoid coding ....these are the tools..

Authentication / Authorization

• Stormpath – Stormpath makes the entire user portion of your project dead simple: store users (and user data) securely, handle user permissions, handle all the email verification / password reset stuff instantly. (OK: I am trying to sell you this, sorry!)

Analytics

• Keen.io – Great API for building out custom analytics.

CDN

• CloudFlare – CDN + DDoS protection! It’s what we use here at Stormpath.
• Fastly – My favorite CDN. Amazing API. Very fast. Super customizable. Makes your website fast — really fast.

CRM

• Intercom – A great customer CRM. Really easy, handles all sorts of customer communication channels — so amazing.

Dashboards

• Ducksboard – I love these guys. Beautiful design. Straightforward API. Makes visualizing your project data simple.
• Leftronic – Nice dashboard, great design. Great API. Better for geolocation stuff, in my opinion.

Databases

• Bonsai – A great ElasticSearch provider.
• Heroku Postgres – The best PostgreSQL hosting service ever created. Period.
• MongoHQ – My favorite MongoDB database provider.
• Open Redis – My favorite Redis provider. I’ve been using them forever — they’ve never gone down, or lost any data. Furthermore, they make scaling your stuff incredibly easy.

Deployment / Hosting

• Heroku – My absolute favorite hosting company.
• Flynn – An up-and-coming Heroku competitor (built on top of Docker). It looks very promising if Heroku isn’t your thing.

Email

• Sendgrid – Send email via their API — easily.

Logging

• Loggly – Easy log management

Monitoring / Debugging

• New Relic – If you don’t have New Relic in your app — I… I don’t even know what to tell you. You’re missing out. New Relic is 100% critical to building any modern application. It gives you the absolute best performance / monitoring information humanly possible.
• RunScope – Debug API services. Monitor API services. Really valuable tool.

Payments

• Stripe – Best damn credit card processor out there.
• Coinbase – Best Bitcoin provider.

Realtime

• Firebase – Powerful API to store and sync data in realtime.
• Pusher – Great API that makes web sockets easy.

Storage

• Amazon S3 – Can’t beat Amazon S3 for file storage / streaming. It’s the best.

Telephony

• OpenCNAM – Caller ID, instantly.
• Twilio – Make phone calls and SMS messages easily.

Testing

• Travis CI – Unit and integration testing service. Free for open source stuff, paid for proprietary stuff.

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