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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
Crystal https://crystal-lang.org/ is beautiful, highly performant, concise, powerful, well documented. It has a solid standard library and plenty of "shards" (packages) too. It's really the elegance of writing it that I appreciate the most -- perhaps even more than I get that elegant feeling from Ruby. The code for the standard library is highly readable and well documented, which is awesome.
In working on this project, I discovered two "superpowers" of Crystal:
The first was macros https://crystal-lang.org/reference/1.5/syntax_and_semantics/... which I used sparingly, but to great effect, when an ordinary method call wouldn't do.
The second was monkeypatching: specifically, it's super easy to reopen existing standard library classes and add a field I need, for example:
# BEGIN MONKEYPATCH
BACKEND:
It's about 3000 lines of Crystal code https://crystal-lang.org/ -- it's been an absolute dream to program in. Ruby-like syntax, statically compiled performance. Nice standard library. Would recommend :)
Performance == caching
Local ephemeral filesystem for shortest-term caching.
Redis for shared medium-term caching and locking.
S3-compatible object storage for longest-term caching (for raw data feeds pulled every evening by a cronjob).
FRONTEND:
Bootstrap
uPlot https://github.com/leeoniya/uPlot
Just a sprinkle of inline JS+CSS on the page.