Reference entries (14)
- reference Timeline 2004–2014: the decade when each of the three historically-expensive parts independently got cheap
- reference Enterprise-tier example: typo-tolerant instant search over a product/document catalog — Algolia or Elasticsearch instead of a dedicated Lucene engineer
- reference Enterprise-tier example: live-data dashboard — NWS API / open data + D3/Chart.js on managed DB; pre-2010 demanded a custom build
- reference Enterprise-tier example: customer account portal — Auth0 + RDS + role-based permissions; commodity parts, bespoke assembly still costs
- reference Chart.js (MIT, free) and Highcharts (free non-commercial, ~$590+ commercial) — higher-level charting layer
- reference D3.js released 2011 by Mike Bostock (with Heer & Ogievetsky, Stanford) — foundational data-viz building block
- reference Amazon Cognito and Firebase Auth — 2014-era managed identity peers to Auth0
- reference Auth0 founded 2013 — managed identity, social login, SSO, SAML
- reference Algolia founded 2012 (Dessaigne & Lemoine; Y Combinator W2014) — search-as-a-service, no infra to manage
- reference Elasticsearch first release 2010 — open-source on Apache Lucene; commodity search
- reference Stripe launched 2011 — card data never touches merchant server (Stripe.js → token), removing the heaviest PCI burden
- reference Django created 2003 at Lawrence Journal-World; released publicly 2005 — "batteries-included," built-in admin/auth/ORM
- reference Ruby on Rails open-sourced July 2004 (DHH from Basecamp); v1.0 December 2005 — convention-over-configuration
- reference Research brief: the falling cost floor of "real" web functionality for SMBs (June 2026)
