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0 pointsgigatexal6y ago0 comments

The stack at SO is heavy on MS tech too. I believe they run a lot of SQLServer.

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Truth, I was at SO in Manhattan for a JS meetup a couple times and all the desktop computers were PCs with Dell monitors.Not a single Mac in sight. Have a feeling they weren't running linux either since Stack Overflow is .NET I believe.

madeofpalk6y ago

I remember many many years ago listening to the Stack Overflow podcast which was Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky talking, in real time, about them creating Stack Overflow.

IIRC it uses ASP.Net MVC or something like that, and might have been the first and/or biggest site using it?

wikibob6y ago

Lots of details on StackOverflow’s architecture here: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

tluyben26y ago

> running linux either since Stack Overflow is .NET I believe

It is a matter of taste and I'm sure these guys (Atwood/Spolsky) love Windows to work on, but with .NET Core (we started porting when the first stable ASP.NET Core came out), we ported/migrated everything from Windows/MS (SQL server, Windows Server, AD, etc) to Linux + MySQL/Postgresql on ASP.NET Core.

I guess it's what you are used to, but everything is faster, smoother, more stable/consistent and easier to manage now. I would never go back.

nickspag6y ago

All asp.net/core as well

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