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Tech stack

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈtek stæk/nounCommon term

In software engineering, tech stack means: The set of programming languages, frameworks, databases and tools that a team uses to build and run a product.

In Turkish: teknoloji yığını, teknoloji altyapısı, kullanılan teknolojiler

How it is used

Often shortened to 'stack': 'What's your stack?', 'Our stack is TypeScript, Node and Postgres.' It appears in job ads, interviews and architecture discussions. 'Full-stack developer' comes from the same idea.

Example sentences

  1. Our tech stack is fairly standard: React on the front end and Go on the back end.

  2. In the interview, they asked how I would choose a tech stack for a new product.

Common collocations

  • our tech stack
  • modern tech stack
  • choose a tech stack
  • full-stack developer
  • frameworkA ready-made structure for building applications that gives you rules, tools and common parts, so you only write the code that is specific to your product.
  • architectureThe high-level structure of a software system: its main parts, how they communicate with each other and the key technical decisions behind them.
  • libraryA collection of ready-made code that other programs can use, so that developers don't have to write common things like date handling or HTTP requests themselves.
  • microservicesAn architecture in which an application is built as many small, independent services, each with one job, that talk to each other over the network.

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