# College Board Tech Stack

College Board uses 61 tools and technologies to build, market, and sell its products.

Source: https://himalayas.app/companies/college-board/tech-stack

## Languages & Frameworks

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Node.js | A platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications |
| JavaScript | Lightweight, interpreted, object-oriented language with first-class functions |
| Python | A clear and powerful object-oriented programming language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, or Java. |
| HTML5 | 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web |
| CSS 3 | The latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language |
| PHP | A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development |
| TypeScript | A superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output |
| Handlebars.js | Minimal Templating on Steroids |

## Development

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| AWS CloudFormation | Create and manage a collection of related AWS resources |
| AWS Cloud Development Kit | A framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code |
| Babel | Use next generation JavaScript, today. |
| Webpack | A bundler for javascript and friends |

## Libraries

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| React | A JavaScript library for building user interfaces |
| jQuery | The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library. |
| jQuery UI | Curated set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery Ja... |
| YUI Library | Open Source JavaScript library for building richly interactive web applications |
| Moment.js | A JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates |
| Lodash | A JavaScript utility library |
| Underscore | JavaScript's utility _ belt |
| MobX | MobX is a battle tested library that makes state management simple and scalable by transparently applying functional reactive programming (TFRP). React and MobX together are a powerful combination. React renders the application state by providing mechanisms to translate it into a tree of renderable components. MobX provides the mechanism to store and update the application state that React then uses. |

## Application Hosting

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon EC2 | Scalable, pay-as-you-go compute capacity in the cloud |
| NGINX | A high performance free open source web server powering busiest sites on the Internet. |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon providing on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis. |

## Data Stores

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon S3 | Store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web |
| Amazon SQS | Fully managed message queuing service |
| Amazon DynamoDB | Fully managed NoSQL database service |

## Application Utilities

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| AWS IAM | Securely control access to AWS services and resources for your users |
| AWS Step Functions | Build Distributed Applications Using Visual Workflows |
| OneTrust | Privacy, security and governance technology platform |
| Amazon Route 53 | A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. |
| Amazon Kinesis | Store and process terabytes of data each hour from hundreds of thousands of sources |
| Smartsheet | An application for collaboration and work management |

## 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. |
| Mouseflow | Mouseflow lets you replay the full visitor experience to identify pain points, boost conversions, and optimize your site. |

## Monitoring

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon CloudWatch | Monitor AWS resources and custom metrics generated by your applications and services |
| AWS CloudTrail | Record AWS API calls for your account and have log files delivered to you |
| New Relic | SaaS Application Performance Management for Ruby, PHP, .Net, Java, Python, and Node.js Apps. |

## Assets and Media

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Cloudflare | The Web Performance & Security Company. |
| Amazon CloudFront | Content delivery with low latency and high data transfer speeds |
| Akamai | The leading platform for cloud, mobile, media and security across any device, anywhere. |
| Cloudinary | Empowering companies to deliver visual experiences that inspire & connect, unleashing the full potential of their media. |

## Design

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Google Fonts | Making the web more beautiful, fast, and open through great typography |
| Figma | The collaborative interface design tool. |
| Adobe InDesign | The next step in layouts design |

## Collaboration

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| DocuSign | The fastest, most secure way to sign, send, and store documents in the cloud. |
| Jira | The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software. |
| Google Workspace | Collaboration and productivity apps for Business. |
| Microsoft Office 365 | Enterprise-class set of productivity tools and cloud-based email |
| Confluence | One place to share, find, and collaborate on information |
| Miro | A visual collaboration platform |
| Zoom | Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing |
| Calendly | Calendly is your hub for scheduling meetings professionally and efficiently, eliminating the hassle of back-and-forth emails so you can get back to work. |

## Communications

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon SNS | Fully managed push messaging service |
| Amazon SES | Bulk and transactional email-sending service. |

## Back Office

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Workday | HR and finance apps built for the future |
| Concur | Your go-to source for all things Travel and Expense. |

## Marketing and Sales Tools

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Salesforce | Connect to your customers in a whole new way |
| Drupal | Free, Open, Modular CMS written in PHP |
| Google Ads | An online advertising solution that businesses use to promote their products and services on Google Search, YouTube and other sites across the web. It also allows advertisers to choose specific goals for their ads, like driving phone calls or website visits. |
| Appcues | User onboarding is just the beginning. Empower your team to measure and improve product adoption, without a developer. |

## Company profile

[College Board](https://himalayas.app/companies/college-board.md)