Express is a web application framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.

Varnish is a reverse caching proxy.

Fastly is a cloud computing services provider. Fastly's cloud platform provides a content delivery network, Internet security services, load balancing, and video & streaming services.

Stripe offers online payment processing for internet businesses as well as fraud prevention, invoicing and subscription management.

Nginx is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache.

Amazon CloudFront is a fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency, high transfer speeds.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality.

Netlify providers hosting and server-less backend services for web applications and static websites.