Technologies

With great integrations Cin7 is growing into a substantial ecommerce platform.

Notion is a very easy to use documentation portal that includes structured data. We eagerly await their API.

Secure chat. Easy to integrate. We use this for internal communication and receiving notifications from our systems.

Structured spreadsheet available via an API, AirTable can be the admin editor for data we use in solutions.

With a solid presence in Australia Neto powers many large ecommerce stores thanks to their excellent ebay integration. We integrate with Neto.

Helping people sell things on the internet, Shopify has an impressive depth of capability. We integrate heavily with Shopify.

A strong contender to Slack, Teams does video chat, channels, scheduling and phone calling.

Microsoft have taken the datawarehouse to the masses with PowerBI. Able to run on the Windows Desktop or in the cloud this is a great way to ask questions of data you may already have. We like how it can run equally well from a spreadsheet and enterprise database.

The original business chat application we've been using Slack for a while. Great for ChatOps.

Typeform creates beautiful online forms and can connect them to other systems.

We track our projects in Paymo. It has one of the best APIs we've experienced.

With over 3,000 integrations Zapier connects SaaS services together through event based "recipies".

A super fast key value store that can use memory or persist to disk. Often used by other systems for caching or event subscriptions.

The ubiquitous open source database. This technology probably powers most of the known web. May mangle your utf8 strings if you don't set the charset and collation correctly.

Arguably the best open source general purpose database (sorry MySQL). Plenty of excellent extensions including GIS.

PouchDB is a library for connecting to CouchDB and also an implementation of the CouchDB protocol inside the browser. Great for browser based editing tools.

This legendary database commands respect. In it’s millionth iteration its rock solid and used by large enterprises everywhere.

A GraphQL native graph database. Dgraph can be used for a simple search index or ramped up into a dynamic schema optional index calculating jugganaut.

The original web visualisations framework, D3 introduced many ideas and has inspired our continued analytics development.

Our in house analytics engine, we use Seacreature in many of our solutions.

The standard for frontend web development.

Web coding language, JavaScript started fairly wonky but has become a software development movement. As a dynamically typed language JavaScript is becoming available in many environments.

Babel is an excellent transpiling system, taking newer JavaScript and Typescript and turning it into compatible code for the web.

One of the current top web frameworks, Vue 3 is a significant change that includes a composition API that we enjoy using.

The JavaScript engine used in Chrome running on the server, Node.js has become a flexible platform due to it's non-blocking event based io and expansive collection if libraries available through npm.

For databaseless authentication we use a variety of jwt styles. This helps our Netlify frontends communicate securely with our backend APIs.

Bundling assets to deploy to the web, Webpack also runs a development environment where changes are automatically built and available to a web browser.

Seeed supply Raspberry Pi HATs and a few other components we use in our IoT solutions.

A great group of WiFi and related network devices. Their Access Points are excellent and don't quite (hopefully?) require any sort of cloud access configured.

Excellent LoRa WAN development chips, boards, sensors and gateways.

A range of powerful networking gear. A little hard to configure (this is not for home use) but incredible powerful via RouterOS. Works well with a network topology and testing tool called The Dude, also from MikroTik.

Similar to the Raspberry Pi the LattePanda is a single board computer. It can run Windows and has an Arduino built-in for communicating with electronic devices. Our LattePanda is used for PowerBI and Accredo development.

These folk make a collection of sensor hardware. We've integrated with their flow meters.

A small PC that can plug into the back of a TV. Great for dashboards and a small amount of media use.

Ory powers our JWT based authentication system.

We enjoy hosting servers OVH's Sydney datacentre for speed from New Zealand.

MeiliSearch powers our lightning fast search engine.

An S3 compatible storage service, Minio is used to store file uploads and cached data.

Authentication as a service.

A content delivery network, Netlify handles static site frontends and makes them fast. 5 second deployments.

A Node.js authentication platform, we use Passport to authenticate Office 365 and several other identity providers.

CapRover gives us the power and flexibility of managing a docker cluster on our own server. With one click apps out of the box we're usually able to setup new systems, services and databases fast. 5 second deployments.

Running most of our servers, DigitalOcean is an excellent hosting provider. They've expanded into more services.

A Node.js queuing platform running on Redis, Bull processes millions of messages for many of our integrations.

A newer web server, Caddy 2 has automatic security certificates and an API built in. We're exploring Caddy 2 as a faster and convenient platform for the future.

Our staff have been using AWS from EC2.

Shaping to be the most successful successor to SQL, GraphQL allows frontend systems to selectively add or remove data on a case by case basis.

Nginx powers over 400 million web servers. It's rock solid and reverse proxies our systems.

The cloud edition of Active Directory.

To provide fault tolerance and distributed locks we use Consul to coordinate configuration and health. HashiCorp are showing everyone how a multi-cloud approach gives us flexibility.

Assisting the progression of automating infrastructure moving to code, Docker is a standardised "container" for software and systems to run.