Technology stack and technologies used
Main City Website (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.
pageWeb applicationsThird-party integrations and tools
Tool | Purpose |
AgilePoint | Form generator/manager |
App hosting | |
BoldChat | Real live chat platform used by 311; paid for by DoIT |
Browserstack | Allows testing on different devices |
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 |
Visual regression testing | |
PHPStorm | JetBrains IDE for PHP (for Drupal) |
Sending transactional emails | |
Server logging | |
Quality Assurance and behavior mapping | |
Realtime messaging | |
Powers global search for boston.gov | |
Stripe | Payment processor used for Registry suite |
Terraform | AWS Infrastructure Scripting |
Continuous integration | |
Upaknee | |
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
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