# Tech to Try

### My Preferred Tech Stack

For static sites, Next.js/Typescript/Tailwindcss with serverless functions deployed on <https://vercel.com>

For complex/dynamic sites, React/Redux/Typescript/Tailwindcss frontend with Phoenix/Elixir backend and Postgres DB deployed on <https://render.com>

Domains from Namecheap and Cloudflare CDN/Nameserver

## To Better Current Stack

1. Radix UI
2. useId react hook
3. Upstash for Redis
4. React Native Reanimated
5. React Transitions from v18
6. <https://zenstack.dev/>, add hooks for prisms
7. Figure out benefits/when to use Webassembly
8. Try render.com yaml deployment
9. Fly.io
10. SQLlite with LiteFS
11. [infisical.com](mailto:tony@infisical.com) Open Source Secret Management
12. Durable

## New Techs to Try

1. Rust
2. Google App Engine for Deployment
3. Redis
4. ELK(elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)
5. RPC
6. Kubernetes
7. Infra as code
   1. Terraform?
   2. <https://www.pulumi.com/pricing/>

### Other Notable Stuff

1. Remix Library - New Full Stack Framework that instead of loading components in cascading manner with their API calls, load in parallel <https://remix.run/>
2. [Dendron](https://www.dendron.so/) for structured note taking - big problem is it doesn't autopreview markdown so takes up so much space

### Generous Free Tier Tools

* [Chatwoot](https://www.chatwoot.com/)
  * intercom with 10k contacts free
* [Posthog Cloud](https://posthog.com/) - 1M events free
  * Feature flags, all event capture, session recording and more
* [Segment](https://segment.com/pricing/) - 1k free users a month then get expensive
  * <https://www.rudderstack.com/pricing>? Cheaper, better?
* [Logrocket](/code-cheatsheets/techtotry.md) - 1k free user a month
* [Sentry](https://sentry.io/pricing/) - 5k errors a month


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