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Ask HN: Which framework you will use in 2021 to build stack overflow
As per their 2008 blog post, they are built on ASP. Net with other MS technologies. I am planning to build something like SO and was wondering what web framework to go with?
- brudgers 5y agoThe reason for ASP.NET is that it was what Atwood and Spolsky knew. It also helped that they knew SQL-Server scales well vertically. It was a good choice then and would be a good choice today. Stack Overflow was able to grow huge because it was built on the Microsoft stack. For a long time it ran on a single database server...a big box with lots and lots of disks and RAM. Because it was a business from the beginning, they were willing to pay for sound technology. They could do so because they were adequately capitalized. Good luck.
- jf22 5y agoWhat's amazing is that .NET has only gotten better since then. I remember hearing about Atwood talk about tools he built himself that are more or less baked into the ASP.NET now.
- OmegaPG 5y agoI'm thinking of using Ruby On Rails though worried about scaling problems. I am already having problems with our another website which get just hundred thousand unique visitors only. I will explore some other frameworks too. Most likely I will go with mongo rather than postgres.
- claudiug 5y agomongo is perfect /s issues with hundred thousand unique visitors only. i also have this issues using heroku at 2.5GB
- softwaredoug 5y agoThere are two types of side projects. One you do because what you’re building is cool. The other because you’re interested in learning some tech. If you’re focused just on the thing you’re building use whatever reasonably modern thing you want. I’d probably use flask, MySQL, and avoid a JavaScript framework as long as I could... but that’s just what I’d work fastest in. Do whatever you are most productive in.
- OmegaPG 5y agoDo you think SO can handle 10% of its current traffic if built using Ruby on Rails? I am building it for a region only so I know it can never get traffic comparable to SO.
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- midrus 5y agoThey probably could handle it with perl and cgi scripts. Most of their traffic is reads, and serving cached HTML is fast whatever backend framework you're using.
- softwaredoug 5y agoI'm not some kind of Rails fanboy, but I do work at Shopify (runs on Rails). Also there's Github which is driven by Rails
- dalmo3 5y agoWhatever framework you pick, just don't use Segoe UI.
- Jowsey 5y agoDon't worry, Microsoft is moving to a new font. Segoe UI... Variable!
- sdevonoes 5y agoJust follow their path: choose the framework you know best.
- Avalaxy 5y agoASP.NET Core