#4 — Shopify

Shopify has had some astounding growth over the past five years. They’ve built eCommerce infrastructure that allows anyone to open and scale an entire online business in the cloud for a monthly fee plus a percentage of the transactions. They’ve got a rich ecosystem of plugins and themes that can be built or added upon through the Shopify Partner Network.

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#5 — AWS Lambda and Serverless

This one is not for the faint of heart. The AWS ecosystem is massive and constantly changing. Amazon builds services on top of services and it can be hard to keep up. Although startups that scale need a cloud infrastructure provider. Amazon invented this space and is followed closely by Google and Microsoft. I recommend checking out AWS Lambda and Serverless for the sole reason that it’s new, hot and can drastically reduce costs for businesses.

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