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The Evolution of Awesome Tech Stacks
LAMP – the OG Tech Stack
Arguably the first tech stack that was called as such was the LAMP stack, which was traced back to a 1998 issue of the German computing magazine: Computertechnik.
LAMP here was an acronym that stood for:
L – Linux (the operating system)
A – Apache (the HTTP server)
M – MySql, or sometimes MariaDB (the database)
P – PHP / Perl / Python (the programing language)
There was something magical about this idea of a tech stack. This bundle of free-to-use, open-sourced, and relatively interchangeable software was a viable (maybe even preferable!) alternative to the many paid, proprietary, and “locking-in” packages that were popular at the time, and gave rise to some killer applications – like WordPress!
An interesting essential part of this idea of “a stack” was the concept of interchangeable pieces – note how the “P” in particular could stand for 3 VERY…