Web Technologies Used by charitywater.org

Cowboy is a small, fast, modern HTTP server with support for Websocket, HTTP/2 and REST.

Ruby on Rails, or Rails, is a server-side web application framework written in Ruby under the MIT License. Rails is a model–view–controller framework, providing default structures for a database, a web service, and web pages.

ZURB Foundation is a responsive front-end framework. Foundation provides a responsive grid and HTML and CSS UI components, templates, and code snippets, including typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface elements, as well as optional functionality provided by JavaScript extensions.

Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License.

Open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time.

Cloudflare is a company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security and distributed domain name server services. Cloudflare's services sit between the visitor and the Cloudflare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.

Fastly is a content delivery network (CDN) and edge cloud platform that offers a range of services to help businesses with their web performance and security needs. From high-speed content delivery to web application firewalls, Fastly has a range of features designed to help businesses improve site performance and protect their data. Fastly’s technology helps businesses reduce latency, improve scalability and reliability, and enable secure and compliant operations. Fastly also offers a range of analytics tools to help businesses understand how their sites are performing and identify opportunities for improvement. With a global network of servers and data centers, Fastly provides businesses with the tools they need to deliver a great user experience.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed to establish that a computer user is human and, at the same time, assist in the digitization of books or improve machine learning.

Cloudflare bot management solution identifies and mitigates automated traffic to protect websites from bad bots.

Varnish is an open-source web application accelerator also known as a HTTP cache or reverse proxy. It is designed to speed up websites and reduce the load on web servers by caching frequently accessed web pages and serving them directly to users without having to generate them dynamically each time they are requested. Varnish is typically used in front of web servers such as Apache or Nginx, and it can be configured to cache content based on various criteria such as URL, HTTP headers, cookies, and more. It also supports dynamic content and can be used to implement load balancing, content filtering, and other advanced features. Varnish is known for its high performance and scalability, and it is widely used by websites with high traffic volumes such as news sites, social media platforms, and e-commerce sites. It is also used by many content delivery networks (CDNs) to improve the speed and efficiency of content delivery.

Optimizely is an American company that makes customer experience optimization software for other companies. The Optimizely platform technology provides A/B testing tools, in which two versions of a web page can be compared for performance, and multivariate testing.