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

• WCF

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.