Technology stack and technologies used

Main City Website (boston.gov)

​The main City of Boston website is a CMS developed using Drupal (a PHP - MySQL framework) hosted on Linux - Apache (LAMP) in the Cloud. Implemented as Drupal 7 in 2016, migrated to Drupal 8 in 2019, then Drupal 9 in March 2022.

Drupal - boston.gov

Cityofboston.gov

Legacy website and applications (pre-Drupal) hosted 'on-prem' at the City. Nearly all of these items live on zpcobweb01 with sql databases -- mainly ZPDMZSQL01 and ZPCOBSQL22. Most of these are .asp or .aspx files.

Web Applications

Our web app stack includes React, NextJS, Node.js/Hapi, and you can check out a more complete list by following the link below.

Some of these are attached to vsql22 for data.

Web applications

Third-party integrations and tools

Tool	Purpose
AgilePoint	Form generator/manager
AWS	App hosting
BoldChat	Real live chat platform used by 311; paid for by DoIT
Browserstack	Allows testing on different devices
GitHub	Version control / code management
GChat	Realtime messaging for those not on Slack
Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager	Web traffic analytics
Google Forms	Form generator/manager
Google Meet	City's main form of video conferencing
Google Optimize	A/B testing
Invoice Cloud	Main payment processor for the City; managed by Enterprise but we link out/often confusion on if a website problem or problem with this platform.
Lando	Containerized build tool/utility
Percy.io	Visual regression testing
PHPStorm	JetBrains IDE for PHP (for Drupal)
Postmark	Sending transactional emails
Rollbar	Server logging
Siteimprove	Quality Assurance and behavior mapping
Slack	Realtime messaging
Swiftype	Powers global search for boston.gov
Stripe	Payment processor used for Registry suite
Terraform	AWS Infrastructure Scripting
TravisCI	Continuous integration
Upaknee
updown.io	Uptime monitoring
Visual Studio Code	Developer IDE for javascript etc
Webex	City's main platform for large video presentations and conferencing (if Google Meet doesn't accommodate)

Information on which team members have access to these can be found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pn9mYnRKtfudlX9VihBWUSuvhJDsiu571g-Dh-j5kss/edit#gid=0