What tools do you use for frontend, CRUD and speed up development?

the biggest speed up thing is the use of a key / value storage server as a "between" server (db -> key / value storage -> output)

i've installed REDIS on almost all CI applications because it is so fast - on an I5-2500 local system with 16 GB Ram i can execute 10.000 Queries in 1 second

in this time are included the Options 

PHP Code:

Redis::OPT_SERIALIZER 
AND 
Redis::SERIALIZER_PHP 


with this options you can easily store heavy ready configured objects - which is a huge benefit

the only thing you need to address is to find a way to update this data if the database data have been changed and an auto fallback system to your db system - but this isn't really a problem