Web Technologies Used by goodreads.com

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.

Google Tag Manager is a free tool from Google that enables users to easily add, update, and manage website tags. Tags are snippets of code that allow websites to track activity, such as page visits and clicks, in order to better understand user behavior. Google Tag Manager makes it easy to quickly and easily add, update, and manage website tags without having to manually update code. It also helps to ensure that tags are firing correctly and accurately tracking user activity.

Apple Sign-in is based on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, and provides a privacy-friendly way for users to sign in to websites and apps.

CKEditor is a WYSIWYG rich text editor which enables writing content directly inside of web pages or online applications. Its core code is written in JavaScript and it is developed by CKSource. CKEditor is available under open-source and commercial licenses.

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

Amazon Web Services is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

SWFObject is a free, open-source tool for embedding swf content in websites.

DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library adding advanced features like pagination, instant search, themes, and more to any HTML table.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library which is designed to detect HTML5 and CSS3 features in various browsers, which lets JavaScript avoid using unimplemented features or use a workaround such as a shim to emulate them. Modernizr aims to provide this feature detection in a complete and standardized manner.

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.

LazySizes is a JavaScript library used to delay the loading of images (iframes, scripts, etc) until they come into view.

Prototype is a JavaScript Framework that aims to ease development of web applications.

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces. It is maintained by Facebook and a community of individual developers and companies. React can be used as a base in the development of single-page or mobile applications, as it is optimal for fetching rapidly changing data that needs to be recorded.

Comscore is an American media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises; media and advertising agencies; and publishers.

Quantcast Measure is an audience insights and analytics tool.

Twitter Ads is an advertising platform for Twitter 'microblogging' system.