Robert Schultz

Dreams of a Startup

While sitting idle tonight I started to think about if I was to launch my own startup from a fresh clean slate, what technologies and stacks would I use? Most people don’t get this opportunity so it’s actually a really interesting question to think about.

My first thought is being from a Microsoft background, would I want to go this route or learn something new. Using something like Python or Ruby would be fun don’t get me wrong, but in reality I’m wanting to launch a startup not spend my time learning new languages. Even then, after being out of a super stealth mode this is completely appropriate and probably applauded.

So here’s my ideal architecture. I actually have some ideas brewing in my head so these are based on the needs of these ideas.

Fx

ASP.NET MVC3
C#
jQuery
Backbone

Storage

Redis for Session State
MongoDb for structured document data storage

Services

Events

NodeJs

Cloud

Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon SQS

IoC

Unity

Testing

nUnit
Selenium or Visual Studio Test Suite

In a nutshell the above is probably what I would begin focusing on and working with. It’s definitely a mixture of both Microsoft and non Microsoft technologies but I think that’s what makes things great; you shouldn’t lock yourself into one technology and should be flexible enough to adopt what’s best. I’m still probably need to update a few items here and expand reasoning but it’s a start. Also, I’m torn on the testing tools because honestly I think Microsoft’s suite of test tools that you can get with Visual Studio 2010 are not bad. It allows really nice integration but then again from what I understand, you need to use all of their tools to really make use of these components.