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When I was there it was in the low hundreds of thousands. Probably more as growth was still in double digit percentages per year of user base.
by rdoherty 3y ago
When I was there it was in the low hundreds of thousands. Probably more as growth was still in double digit percentages per year of user base.
- ksec 3y ago>When I was there it was in the low hundreds of thousands. Blows my mind every time I see these kind of numbers.
- fbdab103 3y agoIndeed. According to this in 2022[0], Stack Overflow is still running off of 9 web servers. [0] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-still-on-prem-runs-qa-platform-off-just-nine-servers/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-st...
- manquer 3y agoSocial media org like Linkedin is hardly comparable with SO style KB the R/W workloads are much higher with Social media, than a KB where vast majority of the transactions can be cached, Wikipedia would be a better comparison to SO. Also Linkedin is 100x the size in users : 1B vs just around ~15M for StackOverflow.
- ksec 3y agoThere are 1B user on LinkedIn ? WOAH ! All of a sudden the scale makes much more sense although I will have to fact check this because the number seems absurdly high for a professional platform.
- manquer 3y agoHere you go, they hit 1B milestone last month https://news.yahoo.com/linkedin-now-1b-users-turns-125845570.html https://news.yahoo.com/linkedin-now-1b-users-turns-125845570...
- ksec 3y agoThanks. Considering Facebook only has 3B user worldwide. I say a social media platform with 1B user is extremely impressive.
- manquer 3y agoDAU/MAU is the more accurate metric to track by. Not as many people would log in to linkedin everyday also people create a profile and never log in again or only login when they are looking actively for a new job. Facebook itself has been having significant loss of engagement in recent years. Instagram and WhatsApp are far more likely to have higher DAU than FB main app.
- Too 3y agoQuick math: 10000 users per machine? Not considering that 90% of all users are likely sleepy accounts.
- bushbaba 3y agoFYI even at their scale the headcount cost is greater man hardware cost.
- Too 3y agoRumor has it, half of them are busy sending out all those millions of unread emails I have in my inbox, about how my “career is on a roll”.