In Search of a Common Deep Learning Stack

Web serving had the LAMP stack, and big data had its SMACK stack. But when it comes to deep learning, the technology gods have yet to give us a standard suite of tools and technologies that are universally accepted. The idea of a common "stack" upon which developers build – and administrators run -- applications has become popular in recent years. Blessed with a multitude of competing options, developers can be fearful of picking the "wrong" tools and technologies and being left on the dark side of a forked project. Administrators tasked with keeping the creations of developers running similarly are afraid of inheriting a technological albatross that weighs them down.