A short list for conversation starters about tech direction ...

CMS: Liferay DXP, CloudCannon

Front End: Astro, Liferay DXP, React, HTML, Javascript, css (Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI) with heroicons, ...

Back End: KrakenD API Gateway, Go, Liferay DXP, Java

Database: PostgreSQL preferred, or as needed

Auth: Better-Auth (email/password and/or to providers like Google, etc), Keycloak, Liferay DXP

APIs: KrakenD API Gateway, Go proxies, Liferay DXP Headless, ...

Infra 1: Astro SSG (static site generated) on/with CloudCannon CMS (good for public facing, with some support for requiring authentication ...)

Infra 2:, frontend: Astro sites/apps mostly server rendered on Cloudflare workers with Cloudflare Tunnels including with Hyperdrive to backend db and also Tunnel to other services on k8s (OVH, Ubuntu LTS, MicroK8s), backups with Bacula (or OVH or ...), Monitoring, ...

Dev to Prod frontend: dev/run local with Cloudflare Wrangler dev, then to GitLab with CI/CD into Cloudflare workers

Dev to Prod backend: dev/deploy using Skaffold to local k8s, then to GitLab with CI/CD using Skaffold to prod k8s

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AI: for supposedly faster surfacing of answers/examples, code/content completion, goose chases, ..