Please add notes of the standard tools/technologies that we have accepted and recommend for use at edX.
For example, do we think that they are Backbone, JS, Python, etc… Apiary, Jenkins, DBs, App Servers, etc…

If we have legacy technology we are using, we can note it, but we should make it clear that it's not a recommended standard.

General

Languages:
- Server-side: Python 3.x (see the Support Windows chart for current version).
- Client-side: Front End Technologies
Recommended Local Storage:
- MySQL
- Mongo (for course content)
Recommended Cloud Storage:
- AWS
Recommended IDE:
- PyCharm
Development Task management:
- Dev tasks: Make, paver (deprecated)
- JS-specific tasks: gulp (not-yet implemented)
CI: Github Actions
Testing
- Styling: pep8, pylint, ESLint
- UI unit tests: Jasmine (test execution), karma (runner, js-test-tool is flagged for eventual deprecation)
- Acceptance tests: Cypress
- Load tests: n/a
Documentation
- EdX Python Style Guide: Docstrings

^{* Note: Forums is currently implemented in Ruby and Sinatra, but should be ported to Python and Django eventually.}

Mobile Apps

Android
- Language: Java
- Dependency Injection: Dagger
- Recommended IDE: Android Dev Studio
iOS
- Language: Swift and Objective-C
- Recommended IDE: XCode
Build Tool: Gradle
CI: Travis
Test Framework: TBD ?

Analytics

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Recommended Data Processing Environment:
- Hadoop (EC2 & EMR)
- Luigi
Recommended Data Storage:
- HDFS (AWS S3) + Hive
- MySQL
- Vertica (Postgres DB) on EC2
Not Recommended Data Discovery/Visualization:
- segment.io
- Splunk (would like to replace with Vertica)
- IPython Notebooks (occasionally used for experimental development)
Recommended Data Discovery/Visualization:
- Google Analytics
- Tableau
- DataDog
Recommended CI:
- Jenkins
Languages:
- Server-side: Python (Django)
- Client-side: Javascript (Backbone, Underscore, RequireJS, D3/NVD3), HTML, CSS (SASS)
Dev task management: gulp
Testing:
- Unit tests: Python unittest
- UI unit tests: jasmine (tests), karma (runner)
- Acceptance tests: Bok Choy

Search Tools

Elastic Search

Observability Tools

Observability Tools and Tips

Performance Tools

How to Test How to Test Performance

API Development

API Documentation Tool

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