Invited Lecture on NoSQL databases and modern web-development frameworks. JavaScript + JSON = easy parsing, less verbose code NodeJS = asynchronous everything. Needs precise flow control ElasticSearch = Scalable indexing, easy to use JSON API GridFS = Transparent scaling for huge numbers of large files; querying using JSON-based API Graph Databases = Model certain problems better than their • relational counterparts. Simpler queries using SPARQL. Less mature than RDBMs. No transactions. Socket.io = Real-time library for client-server-client push communication