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0 pointsseemslegit6y ago0 comments

And can you spot a non json/http based service in their stack ? (no redis and sqlserver don't count because they don't own those)

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... don't know if there's a later one.

EDIT: I see they store their redis values in protobuf which is probably more due to memory utilization rather than serialization performance concerns

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p_l6y ago

I can spot, however, kernel-mode HTTP servers (including customized ones), and heavy use of pretty advanced stack with good optimization capabilities. The choices of the stack do make a big impact, something that they have mentioned several times, with the summary of "paying Microsoft licenses paid back very well compared to using popular open-source stacks"

Remember, Performance is also a feature. Both a non-functional one (to reduce your costs) or functional one (to have happier users).

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0 pointsseemslegit6y ago0 comments

And can you spot a non json/http based service in their stack ? (no redis and sqlserver don't count because they don't own those)

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar... don't know if there's a later one.

EDIT: I see they store their redis values in protobuf which is probably more due to memory utilization rather than serialization performance concerns

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p_l6y ago

Remember, Performance is also a feature. Both a non-functional one (to reduce your costs) or functional one (to have happier users).

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse