1. Technologies Environments

2. Quick Poll  What stack are you planning to use?

3. Platforms

4. What is a Platform?  environment used to write and run applications  GUI builders  Compilers/languages  class libraries  utilities  frameworks  content management systems  operating systems

5. Breadth of Choices  Not that many operating systems  Many, many libraries  Some are very general  Some are very specialized  Keep your view broad

6. Is it a good choice?  Don’t build your design around a tool  Don’t trust unused systems  Don’t trust stale systems

7. How open free-to-use code?  Same considerations!

8. Environments

9. Goals: A Perfect World  Never need to move your system  Never have team members with different environments  Never have a misconfiguration  Never be using different versions of your software

10. Simple Solutions  Everyone uses the same system  All changes are to the live system  Right!

11. Tools to Help  Repositories  Virtual machines

12. Hosting  What makes a good hosting environment?  How do you handle prod and dev?