Torontoist Technology Stack

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.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

FlexSlider is a free responsive jQuery slider toolkit that supported in all major browsers with navigation options & touch swipe support.

Font Awesome makes it easy to add vector icons and social logos to their website.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tumblr, a microblogging platform, enables companies and users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

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.

Yoast offers plugins to improve SEO and optimize web sites and blogs.

YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.

Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added.

ComScore is a web analytics and digital marketing software that assesses users website and online platforms performances based on visitor trends and search engine results. ComScore lets users identify digital audiences in depth and enables user to drill down on vital traffic data and in turn segment your audiences for retargetting content campaigns.

Facebook Pixel helps organizations measure customer actions, build audiences and unlock optimisation tools. Facebook pixel is a snippet of JavaScript code that allows you to track visitor activity on your website.

New Relic One is an entity-centric observability platform that collects and contextualizes all operational data—from any source—and simplifies instrumentation, data ingestion, exploration, correlation, and machine learning-powered analysis to support observability for every organization.

Tableau Desktop is data visualization software that lets users see and understand data within minutes. Tableau Desktop has a rich feature set and allows users to code and customize reports.

Tableau Software is a business intelligence and analytics solution that offers a range of integrated products to help users visualize and understand their data.

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.

MailChimp list management features help users organize and target their list for sending. They automatically remove bounce backs and unsubscribes from their list.

Google Drive is a cloud storage and backup platform to access files, docs, photos & more, store them in a safe place, and collaborate with other people.

Slack is a single workspace that connects users with the people and tools they work with everyday, no matter where they are or what they do.

Google Sheets is a spreadsheet program for data analysis.

New Relic is used to monitor customer's entire system, including applications, servers, browsers, and network. An ecosystem of plugins let clients monitor customers entire stack.

Patreon enables creators to earn ongoing revenue directly from their fans.

TinyLetter is a personal newsletter service that can be used to send updates, digests, and dispatches