[andatki]

Rails and Postgres (and AWS) was the pre-acquisition stack, and development continued with that stack during this time period (2020-2021). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_(software)

Microsoft acquired companies with web and mobile platforms with varied backgrounds at a high rate. I got the sense that the tech stack—at least when it was based on open source—was evaluated for ongoing maintenance and evolution on a case by case basis. There was a cloud migration to Azure and encouragement to adopt Surface laptops and VS Code, but the leadership advocated for continuing development in the stack as feature development was ongoing, and the team was small.

Besides hosted commercial versions, I was happy to see Microsoft supporting community/open source PostgreSQL so much and they continue to do so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...

[neonsunset]

PostgreSQL has been the most popular choice for greenfield .NET projects for a while too. There really isn't any vendor lock-in as most of the ecosystem is built with swappable components.