Ground Down, LLC. Technology Stack

Bold is an internal blog for the team's knowledge and ideas.

Bugsnag is command center for software stability - empowering software teams to make data-driven decisions on when to focus on building new features, or when to fix bugs.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Google Cloud DNS is a scalable, reliable and managed authoritative Domain Name System (DNS) service running on the same infrastructure as Google. It has low latency, high availability and is a cost-effective way to make user applications and services available to users.

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.

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin.

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

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at a retail location, and everywhere.

Shopify Pay is a frictionless payment method to purchase goods online.

Stripe is an online payment processing tool for internet businesses. Stripe handles everything, including storing cards, subscriptions, and direct payouts to their bank account. Meticulously designed APIs and functionality help users create the best possible product for their users.

Stripe Connect provides a powerful API and other tools needed to accept payments, as well as onboard, verify, and pay sellers and service providers. Users can tailor integration in various ways.

Venmo is an online service owned by PayPal that allows you to quickly pay and request money from your friends.