Sankofa Saturdays Technology Stack

Adyen is a payment processing platform built for businesses within any sector, with tools for accepting payments in multiple formats and optimizing growth.

Boku is a mobile payments network providing mobile-enhanced payments in e-commerce and at physical point-of-sale.

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.

Cloud based storage systems by AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

AMP is a way to build web pages for static content that render fast.

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.

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

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a web browser.

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.

Typekit is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.

Chartbeat measures realtime site activity and audience engagement of content with an easy to use dashboard, in-page analytics, historical reporting & more.

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

chat.io is a multichannel chat platform designed to increase customer engagement and sales on eCommerce websites.

Chat.io was designed to make the most of every chat with the minimum effort on their side. It learns from their conversations, automatically suggests responses and speeds up their service.

Criteo serves personalized online display advertisements to consumers on behalf of e-commerce companies.

GoDaddy Inc. designs and develops cloud-based technology products for small businesses, Web design professionals, and individuals in the United States and internationally. It provides domain name registration product that enables to engage customers at the initial stage of establishing a digital identity; hosting products, such as shared Website hosting, Website hosting on virtual private servers and virtual dedicated servers, managed hosting, and security.

GoDaddy's website builder, formally called Websites+ Marketing, is an online editing and publishing tool that helps users make a responsive website with no technical knowledge required.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

WordPress is a website and blog creation and publishing platform with tools for aesthetic designing, visitor tracking, content storage and upload.

Jetpack offers SEO and security plugins for Wordpress.

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