# Newsela Tech Stack

Newsela uses 50 tools and technologies to build, market, and sell its products.

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

## Languages & Frameworks

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Material-UI | React components for faster and easier web development |
| 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 |
| ES6 | The next version of JavaScript |
| CSS 3 | The latest evolution of the Cascading Style Sheets language |
| R Language | A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics |

## Development

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Webpack | A bundler for javascript and friends |

## Libraries

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Pandas | High-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools for the Python programming language |
| React | A JavaScript library for building user interfaces |
| Modernizr | Respond to your user’s browser features |
| Moment.js | A JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates |
| Lodash | A JavaScript utility library |
| Stata | Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. |

## 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 |
| --- | --- |
| Snowflake | The data warehouse built for the cloud |
| Amazon S3 | Store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web |

## Application Utilities

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Amazon Route 53 | A highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service. |
| Gatsby | Free, open source framework for building blazing fast websites and apps with React |

## Analytics

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Google Tag Manager | Quickly and easily update tags and code snippets on your website or mobile app |
| Looker | Pioneering the next generation of BI, data discovery & data analytics |
| Heap | Automatically capture every user action in your app and measure it all |
| Google Analytics | Enterprise-class web analytics. |
| Facebook Pixel | A piece of code for your website that lets you measure, optimise and build audiences for your advertis... |
| Optimizely | Optimizely is the market leader in digital experience optimization, helping digital leaders and Fortune 100 companies alike optimize their digital products, commerce, and campaigns with a fully featured experimentation platform. |

## Monitoring

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| New Relic | SaaS Application Performance Management for Ruby, PHP, .Net, Java, Python, and Node.js Apps. |
| TrackJS | Production error monitoring and reporting for web applications. TrackJS provides deep insights into real user errors. See the user, network, and application events that tell the story of an error so you can actually fix them. |

## Assets and Media

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

## Design

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Font Awesome | The internet's most popular icon toolkit |

## Collaboration

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Jira | The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software. |
| Confluence | One place to share, find, and collaborate on information |
| Zoom | Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing |

## Communications

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| SendGrid | Email Delivery. Simplified. |
| Mailgun | The Email Service for Developers. |
| Amazon SES | Bulk and transactional email-sending service. |
| Mandrill | Send transactional, triggered, and personalized email, then track results. |
| Postmark | Email delivery for web apps - done right. |

## Back Office

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Greenhouse | Greenhouse's applicant tracking system and recruiting software is designed to help make companies great at hiring and hire for what's next. |
| Microsoft Excel | A spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft Office suite of applications |

## Marketing and Sales Tools

| Technology | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| Facebook Ads | Social network advertising |
| Twitter Ads | It allows businesses and brands to connect with a relevant and engaged audience |
| Contentful | The content platform to build digital experiences at scale |
| Salesforce | Connect to your customers in a whole new way |
| Drift | A messaging app that helps you grow your business. |
| Google Webmasters | A suite of Google SEO tools |
| Vidyard | Turn your video content into powerful marketing tools |
| Marketo | Marketing automation, social campaigns, inbound marketing, sales apps, ROI reporting - all in one place. |
| 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. |

## Company profile

[Newsela](https://himalayas.app/companies/newsela.md)