What's your preferred tech stack to build useful products fast?

Ishan Dubey
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It depends on the type and scope of software you're building, but what do you use when you want to make a tool (deployable and shippable) that just solves a given problem fast.? I am currently playing around with FastAPI and I thought it should be doable to spin up robust APIs quick with a Postgre database and couple it with an HMTX frontend if not a lot of fancy interaction is needed in the application. What do you prefer?

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Eden
I've gotten pretty comfortable with AWS Lambda and that hosts most things for me, then i use python and planetscale for the db
Ishan Dubey
@entreeden Ahh Sounds convenient! Waiting for the day open-source cloud options gather enough traction that one is able to use something like OpenStack for a similar use case
Ramit Koul
Rails + MySQL + Redis + React works best for the use case for me.
Ishan Dubey
@ramitkoul Only ever seen Rails from a distance, never used it. But I have heard good things about development speed when using it!
Ishan Dubey
@ramitkoul Will keep it in mind! But first I'll try integrating Redis with FastAPI and see how that goes