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I mean Stackoverflow is bigger than Quora and uses a relational database for storing most everything if I recall. They also use either memcached/redis (too lazy
by ecnahc515 7y ago
I mean Stackoverflow is bigger than Quora and uses a relational database for storing most everything if I recall. They also use either memcached/redis (too lazy to check) to do caching of things pretty heavily though.
- joncrane 7y agoTheir tech stack is incredible. They run an extremely lean operation. I'm an AWS and Linux fanboy and in fact have essentially staked 5-10 years of my career on AWS being the "go-to" technology. But if you have talent like Nick Craver and crew onboard, you have every reason to build and maintain your own hardware. Not only that, it's all .NET/MSSQL. It's incredible technology and they are awesome at it. https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-hardware-2016-edition/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...
- mrits 7y agoIt's actually a typical stack.
- BubRoss 7y agoWhat is so incredible about it?
- joncrane 7y agoThe fact that they can serve their entire user base with so little hardware.
- BubRoss 7y agoBut what are they doing that enables that other than putting standard components together and not introducing crazy bottlenecks? What part is incredible technology? Maybe modern computers and software just enable far more throughput than most people realize.
- voldacar 7y agoHow incredible! How incredible!