169: Choosing The Right Tools

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Things Mentioned

• Greenfield Project
• Phoenix Framework
• Elixir - HTTPoison.Base
• Laravel Framework
• Laravel - Horizon
• Laravel - Nova
• Laravel - Echo
• Laravel - Spark
• Sidekiq
• Rails
• Rails - Webpacker
• Rails - Autoloader
• Rails - Sprockets
• Elixir Boilerplate
• https://spark.laravel.com/
• https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/horizon
• Bethink
• RHR
• Bus factor
• Ruby AWS Gem
• Amazon Elastic Beanstalk
• https://xkcd.com/1205
• Api Dock
• [C#](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_(programming_language)
• Adobe Flex
• Macromedia - Shockwave

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