In software engineering, we have a lot of tools—tens or hundreds of different tools, products, and platforms. We have SQL DBs, we have NoSQL DBs with multiple subtypes, we have queues, data streaming platforms, caches, orchestrators, cloud, cloud versions of all the previous. We have enough ….

In this article, I want to describe a “basic” modern stack that will allow you to build robust and scalable systems. They are language agnostic and can be easily integrated into most of the modern day programming languages.