GoMetro Technology Stack

Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars and was created by Tom Preston-Werner. It is owned by Automattic, having integrated it into their WordPress.com blogging platform.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, created by Taylor Otwell and intended for the development of web applications following the model view controller (MVC) architectural pattern and based on Symfony. Some of the features of Laravel are a modular packaging system with a dedicated dependency manager, different ways for accessing relational databases, utilities that aid in application deployment and maintenance, and its orientation toward syntactic sugar.

MySQL is an open source database that supports scalable web-based and embedded database applications.

Nginx is a web server which can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional and procedural, and has a large and comprehensive standard library.