The SLAP stack is the last server stack you'll ever need

I just like saying that. Clearly you should use whatever you want. “What is the SLAP stack?” you ask. Well, I just invented the name on Mastodon a few days ago. I don’t even want to do a web search to see if it’s already taken because that will take the wind out of my sails and I won’t finish this blog post. But first, there’s something you should know about me. I have this aphorism I live by: everyone is weird and everything is complicated. The former is mostly meant as a compliment. But today, I’m going to do what I can to mitigate the latter. And you know what’s complicated? Web apps. There are so many tech stacks you can choose for websites and web apps these days. They all have these dumb acronyms—LAMP, LEMP, MEAN, MERN, JAM.[1] Let’s take the LAMP stack, for example. It stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. This has to be the most popular server stack on the internet thanks to the popularity of WordPress, the venerable blog and website content management system that powers a…