Larry Martell wrote:
In this context a stack is the technologies that are layered to implement your system. For example LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is a stack. Or Linux, Nginx, MySQL, Django, python.
In the context of TCP/IP the term "stack" is clearly relevant since there clearly is a hierarchy with the standard defining it. The network protocol standard prevents each layer from using layers that are not next to it, correct? In the context of LAMP there is no defined layer; they all swim together and the term "stack" becomes as clear as mud.
People tend to use terms beyond their original definition and thereby often make the term useless.
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