Here’s a summary of stuff that I currently use or intend to explore, created using the excellent tech radar library from Zalando.
For the most part, technologies in the "Spurn" section have served me well in the past, it’s just that we have drifted apart. No disparagement should be inferred. Except for MongoDB, which deserves an outer annulus of its own (tentative title: "Repel with fire and shitty sticks").