Technology Stacks

For the past 20 years there’s been this trend to give names to a particular set of operating system, programming language, database tech, and something else. Here goes a list with the most common ones.

• LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python
  • XAMPP Apache HTTP Server, MariaDB, PHP, Perl
  • WAMP Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP
  • WIMP Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP
  • MAMP macOS, Apache, MySQL or MariaDB, PHP, Perl, or Python
  • DAMP Darwin, Apache, MySQL, PHP
  • LEMP Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MongoDB, PHP
  • AMPPS Apache, MySQL, MongoDB, PHP, Perl and Python
• MEAN MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS (or Angular), and Node.js
• SAFE Saturn, Azure, Fable, Elmish
• ELK Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
• BCHS BSD, C, httpd, SQLite
• LYME Linux, Yaws, Mnesia (or CouchDB), Erlang
• GLASS Gemstone/S, Linux, Apache, Smalltalk, Seaside
• Jamstack static HTML
• GRANDstack GraphQL, React, Apollo, Neo4j
• XRX XForms, REST and XQuery
• PETAL Phoenix, Elixir, Tailwind, Alpine and LiveView.

These days of DevOps and cloud technologies, we have more of these:

• DevOps Stack
• PLONK Prometheus, Linux/Linkerd, OpenFaaS, NATS, Kubernetes
• SMOKE Serviceful (not just Serverless), Multi-cloud, Open, Kubernetes, Event-driven

And there’s more and more stacks. And there’s even a comparison platform for stacks.

Update, 2024-02-23: Add the TALL stack to the mix: Tailwind, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Livewire.