You can say what you like about Microsoft, but their server stuff just plain works. You never really hear stories about how to make it scale because so long as

You can say what you like about Microsoft, but their server stuff just plain works. You never really hear stories about how to make it scale because so long as you don't go out of your way to shoot yourself in the foot, it just sorta scales on its own without you thinking about it. Every piece of the stack is crazy fast, and they're all built by one organization to work together. In that light, it's not all that surprising that it works so well. You see a lot of bias against MS in tech circles, but this is one thing that they're actually pretty good at.