Web Technologies Used by rfa.org

Nginx is a web server and reverse proxy software. It is also used as a load balancer, HTTP cache and a mail proxy server. It is open source and free, and is known for its high performance and stability. Nginx is designed to handle a large number of concurrent connections and can easily scale to meet the needs of a high-traffic website. It is used by some of the world's most popular websites, including Netflix, WordPress, and Dropbox.

Kaltura is a video content management platform that allows users to upload, manage, share, publish, and stream videos.

Bootstrap is a free and open-source CSS framework directed at responsive, mobile-first front-end web development. It contains CSS- and JavaScript-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components.

Facebook Login is a way for people to create accounts and log into your app across multiple platforms.

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

Ubuntu is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on Debian.

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

FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style "lightbox" that floats overtop of web page.

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.

Underscore.js is a JavaScript library which provides utility functions for common programming tasks. It is comparable to features provided by Prototype.js and the Ruby language, but opts for a functional programming design instead of extending object prototypes.

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.

jQuery Migrate is a javascript library that allows you to preserve the compatibility of your jQuery code developed for versions of jQuery older than 1.9. It basically restores deprecated features and behaviours so that older code will still run properly on the current jQuery version and later.

Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a RESTful JSON interface and is based on the Model–view–presenter application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only hard dependency is on one JavaScript library, Underscore.js, plus jQuery for use of the full library.

RequireJS is a JavaScript file and module loader.

Google's Font API provides website developers a means by which they may quickly add custom fonts to their website.

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.