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Is this described somewhere? :)
by aspectmin 6y ago
Is this described somewhere? :)
- cm2187 6y agoThe most recent resource I found. I think they basically use a rack in one datacentre. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-and-technologies-are-used-to-build-the-stack-exchange-network https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-a...
- giantrobot 6y agoThis is the newest version of their architecture I've seen [0]. Compare to an overview from 2009 [1]. tl;dr StackOverflow's architecture is fairly simple and has done mostly vertical scaling (more powerful machines) and bare metal servers rather than virtual servers. They also realize their use patterns are read-heavy so there's a lot of caching and they take advantage of CDNs for static content which completely offloads that traffic off their main servers. [0] https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... [1] http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture http://highscalability.com/stack-overflow-architecture