Affino 7 Key Technologies

A lot of technologies go into delivering Affino. These start right from the product design and architecture stage; through the project management, development and quality assurance process; and finally the delivery and day-to-day serving of Affino sites. All in all Comrz is using close to 100 different techs related to Affino.

There are some that we couldn’t do without, and which are the key engines that serve Affino pages to millions of users day in and day out. These are:

Adobe ColdFusion

ColdFusion is no longer a fashionable (or perfect) technology, but it is one which is going from strength to strength as a platform. ColdFusion 10 is an incredibly strong platform and Adobe have made some great moves with evolving the latest generations. It allows us to deliver rapid innovations in a way that scales.

Amazon AWS

Affino runs on a lot of Amazon’s AWS services, including: EC2, S3, CloudFront and many more. The combination of service and value we get from Amazon is unbeatable.

Apache / Apache Tomcat

Apache and Tomcat are the de-facto leaders for Web and Java servers. They allow everything else to run solidly and reliably.

Microsoft SQL Server

We have tried numerous Database technologies, and so far none has delivered as effectively on our price performance needs as SQL Server. It’s a great solid performer.

Scalr

Affino is new to Scalr, but it’s our auto-scaling technology of choice, and will bring a new level of scalability and reliability to the Affino SaaS services.

Linux

Linux is going to be a big part of Affino’s future since it is allowing us to extend the automations we have always looked to bring to Affino, whilst providing great reliability and solid performance.

Windows Server

The mainstay OS for Affino. It has steadily improved over the years, whilst offering the services that Affino needed to develop. We’re looking forward to see it’s evolution into Windows Server 2012.