Spanning Tree, Link Aggregation , VLAN and First Hop Redundancy protocols are used in Campus, Service Provider Access and Aggregation and in the Datacenter environment. There are definitely other protocols which are common across the Places in the Networks but in order to keep this article short and meaningful I choose these four. Read more
In this video Orhan Ergun explains all the spanning tree modes and compare them from the design point of view. If you need scalability use MST , if you want fast convergence and flexibility use RSTP and so on. If you want me to share more spanning tree videos or explain specific technology please comment below.