# Balsamiq Tech Stack

Balsamiq uses 32 tools and technologies to build, market, and sell its products.

Source: https://himalayas.app/companies/balsamiq/tech-stack

## Languages & Frameworks

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Bootstrap | Simple and flexible HTML, CSS, and JS for popular UI components and interactions |
| JavaScript | Lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions |
| HTML5 | 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web |
| CSS 3 | The latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language |

## Development

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| AWS CloudFormation | Create and manage a collection of related AWS resources |

## Libraries

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Modernizr | Respond to your user’s browser features |

## Application Hosting

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon EC2 | Scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud |
| PubNub | Build real-time apps quickly and scale them globally. |
| NGINX | A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet. |
| WP Engine | WP Engine provides WordPress hosting for demanding business owners and bloggers. |

## Data Stores

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon S3 | Store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web |
| Amazon ElastiCache | Deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud |
| Amazon RDS | Set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. |

## Application Utilities

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon Route 53 | A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. |

## Analytics

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Google Tag Manager | Quickly and easily update tags and code snippets on your website or mobile app |
| Google Analytics | Enterprise-class web analytics. |

## Monitoring

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Pingdom | Uptime and performance monitoring made easy |

## Assets and Media

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon CloudFront | Content delivery with low latency and high data transfer speeds |

## Collaboration

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Slack | Bring all your communication together in one place |
| HipChat | Supercharge team collaboration with group chat and IM |
| Google Workspace | Collaboration and productivity apps for Business. |
| Balsamiq | Rapid wireframing tool that helps you work faster & smarter |
| Pivotal Tracker | Pivotal Tracker is changing how teams build software, one story at a time. |

## Communications

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| SendGrid | Email Delivery. Simplified. |
| Mandrill | Send transactional, triggered, and personalized email, then track results. |
| Postmark | Email delivery for web apps - done right. |

## Marketing and Sales Tools

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Salesforce | Connect to your customers in a whole new way |
| Mailchimp | Easy email newsletters |
| Discourse | The 100% open source, next-generation discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. |
| Desk.com | The all-in-one system for delivering awesomely responsive customer support |
| WordPress | A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. |

## Payments

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Stripe | Payments for developers |

## Company profile

[Balsamiq](https://himalayas.app/companies/balsamiq.md)