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A: ungraceful crash under load
by lifeguard 14y ago
A: ungraceful crash under load
- ams6110 14y agoSorry, a database-backed web app works just fine on a Microsoft stack, there are thousands of them out there and I say that as someone who vastly prefers unix but this is clearly a project management fiasco and architecture design fiasco, not a technology stack fundamentally unable to handle the demands.
- lifeguard 14y agoI agree the MS stack works fine in the dev lab.
- lifeguard 14y agofrom the down votes apparently it doesn't work in the lab either!
- rhizome 14y agoNo, just that you're plainly talking out of your ass.
- hythloday 14y agoStack Overflow (you may have heard of them) runs a Windows stack with Linux used only for caching & logging (because it's "cheap"). http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo... http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...
- cube13 14y agoWhich also can happen with a terribly coded application running on Linux. Or with a terribly configured apache server. This was a meatspace failure, more than anything else.