Software stacks are projects of software which nicely work together. They are sometimes also called solution stacks. Here are some that I know are widespread.
This is an article I had for quite a while as a draft. As part of my yearly cleanup, I've published it without finishing it. It might not be finished or have other problems.
LAMP
What it is good for: Simple start for creating web services.
Software:
- Linux: Operating System
- Apache: Web Server
- MySQL: Database management system
- PHP: Programming language
LNMP
What it is good for: Creating web services.
Software:
- Linux: Operating System
- Nginx: web server
- MySQL / MariaDB: Database management system
- Perl, PHP, Python: Programming language
MEAN
What it is good for: Creating web services.
Software:
- MongoDB: Database
- Express.js: Controller layer
- Angular: Presentation layer
- Node.js: Web server
ELK
What it is good for: Search, analyze and visualize data in real time.
Software:
- Elasticsearch: search and analytics engine
- Logstash: server‑side data processing pipeline
- Kibana: lets users visualize data
Android
Software:
- Editor: Android Studio
- Programming language: Java / Kotlin
iOS
Software:
Data Science
Although I haven't heard a catchy name, many people use similar things:
- EDA: Pandas, Jupyter notebooks and Bash (cat, jq, head, tail)
- Model Building: sklearn
- Images: Matplotlib and many more visualization tools
- Cloud:
- AWS Stuff (S3, EC2, ECR and ECS, CloudWatch, SSM, ...)
- Azure (Microsoft)
- GCP (Google Cloud)
And then there come a lot of specialized libraries into play, depending on what you want to do.