I wondered that, too. The scalability of cloud is ok when you are growing but truly wonderful when you are shrinking. Stack Overflow used to serve over half a

I wondered that, too. The scalability of cloud is ok when you are growing but truly wonderful when you are shrinking. Stack Overflow used to serve over half a billion page views per month on only 25 servers[0]. I wonder how much traffic they get now, excluding crawlers? Anecdotally, one of the reasons for SO's decline is that an LLM gives you the SO answer without the condescending snark. SO could have fixed that years ago, but didn't. So perhaps it might turn out to be yet another example of the dictum that culture eats strategy for breakfast. [0] https://highscalability.com/stackoverflow-update-560m-pageviews-a-month-25-servers-and-i/ https://highscalability.com/stackoverflow-update-560m-pagevi...