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Do you have any idea how big their actual database is? And how many clients thay serve? It does seem to be an example of a "standard" architecture done well. O
by collyw 7y ago
Do you have any idea how big their actual database is? And how many clients thay serve?
It does seem to be an example of a "standard" architecture done well. Our application has a tiny fraction of the traffic and it struggles with some things.
- manigandham 7y agoIt's all public: https://stackexchange.com/performance https://stackexchange.com/performance Here's a series of blog posts with a lot more detail by one of their devs: https://nickcraver.com/blog/archive/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/archive/ They're very optimized and can serve all of their traffic on a single webserver, redis instance and SQL server.
- ramraj07 7y agoBeing a compiled program vs something in python or Ruby probably makes the majority of the difference!