I ran a few small development shops a long time ago and then went into ecommerce in a bank.  Eventually I was a bank compliance advisor (business side) for the bank. No hands on IT and I was miserable.  I was good at what I did, remediate systems and processes to make the bank examiners happy but 70+ hr work weeks were killing me.  Hence I decided I wanted to get back to web development as the job I am doing now that I grew up.  I&#x27;ve been at the University 9.5 years. Almost as long as my longest job.<p>I run the development shop for backend and the cms and I am the scrum coach for all development work.   I am by far the oldest and we joke that I am the resident curmudgeon, but in reality I am a pretty positive person.<p>I do mostly backend development in the order of priority:<p>- java 1.8 (love hate)
- python (love)
- bash  (necessary)
- php (meh, only as demos for people that don&#x27;t know how to do something)<p>We use cloudfront as a cdn and our web is php based. But we have UI developers for 99+% of the pho work.<p>I wrote a java middleware system 5 years ago that is old and very hard to extend. We are replacing it with spring based apache camel code and routes. Love, love, love apache camel)<p>Db is Oracle because we have a site license.  I occasionally write sql for others that don&#x27;t know or need to know SQL.<p>Our CMS is cascade by Hannon Hill. A publish only CMS and we love it. We are 100% in control of all the code that runs in our web. ~140 web sites, ~129 are branded for our university.<p>Web Servers are RHEL, load balanced by F5 load balancer.  Backend XML database is Exist-db (love this as well). Exist-db uses xquery but I don&#x27;t do any xquery. Apache httpd (love for sites out size of traffic) with Zend Server (love hate but necessary for Oracle connectivity from apache httpd). Yes I could compile our own apache httpd with oracle libraries but that is strongly discouraged by our data center staff.<p>Of course we use git. HipChat, BitBucket (free private repos for non-profits).  I do development on Mac OSX mostly and port. We never have porting problems.<p>Others use javascript with jquery and angular.  No node.js in our shop.  SAAS CSS compiler.<p>I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m missing something that that is most of it.