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I love reading about StackOverflow, particularly their infrastructure. The site has been a useful resource for so many years, and it works so well. It was a jo
by 3princip 12y ago
I love reading about StackOverflow, particularly their infrastructure.
The site has been a useful resource for so many years, and it works so well. It was a joy to discover that it all ran on like two racks worth of servers, and still does. Having seen corporate intranet portals, with maybe a thousand daily active users, running on excessive* hardware (needlessly, of course), it's like a breath of fresh air.
*EDIT: Removed hyperbole. Not more hardware, but too much nonetheless.
- GeorgeBeech 12y agoWe take a lot of pride in how much we get out of each piece of hardware. You don't need to have 1000 servers to run a large site, just the mindset of performance first.
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- _cudgel 12y agoLikewise, I always find these write-ups fascinating, well written, well planned, etc. I really appreciate the extra effort involved in making all this public!