





Some software stacks, like LAMP, flourished…and others, well, they just didn’t make the grade.

FLUKE

Facebook, LUa, and KErberos

WASTE

Google Wave, ASP, Sparrow, Truecrypt, and Encarta

FAPPY

Flat files, APache, and PYthon

HYPESS

Hadoop, Yo, PErl, Swift, and a Segway

SCHEET

Scala, a CHange purse, Java EE, and Tomcat

FAIL

F#, Access, IIS, and Longhorn

NOBJOB

NOde.js, BLOBs, JQuery, and some Oracle Bloatware

GOALONG

GO, AnguLarJS, Offers, Nest API, and Google Maps

Peter Bolton is the author of Blowing the Bridge: A Software Story and has also been known to be a grumpy bastard on occasion.