[wanderingstan]

> Increasingly I am using more free/paid SAAS for services like file uploads, emails, storage, monitoring, etc.

I'd consider this part of the stack -- it's just not done in-house.

Can you list the services that you'd reccomend for those tasks?

[bikamonki]

While I've tested a lot, these are the ones that I actually use in prod: - AWS S3 for static storage + Route 53 for static websites - Ink (Filepicker) and Ospry.io for uploads - Parse.com for persistence and user management - Firebase.com also for persistence but for cases where auto-synch is required. - Madrill for transactional email - Newrelic for monitoring - DigitalOcean for cloud hosting