PHP (Laravel)
- Great for CRUD apps, portals, and CMS-like workflows
- Affordable hosting and huge talent pool
- Matures well with queues and caches
Choosing Your Tech Stack in 2025
Balance maintainability, scalability, hiring, and cost when choosing PHP, .NET, or MERN. Here’s a practical rubric that we use with clients.
Decision Filters
- Team skills: Leverage what your team already knows to reduce ramp-up time.
- Runtime constraints: Heavy Windows/AD/Office integrations often favor .NET; low-cost hosting favors PHP.
- Time-to-market: MERN shines for rapid iteration and modern UX.
- Ecosystem and tooling: Libraries, frameworks, and CI/CD maturity.
- Total cost of ownership: Licensing, cloud spend, and support.
When to pick each stack
.NET
- First-class Windows/Office/AD integrations
- High performance and excellent tooling
- Enterprise support and long-term stability
MERN
- Modern UX, SSR/ISR with Next.js
- Strong DX, huge JS ecosystem
- Fits serverless and edge patterns
Architecture Notes
- Adopt a modular monolith first; extract services only for clear scale or domain reasons.
- Automate tests (unit, API, e2e) and add CI/CD gates early.
- Plan observability (logs, metrics, traces) from the start.
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