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Re:Scalability, but at what cost? (2015) by Joeri on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:25PM (#11857050)
So basically, through careful engineering, they can run stackoverflow.com, one of the top-ten sites in the world, on a single web server and a single database server. Beefy machines for sure, but it kind of takes the air out of the web-scale hype balloon.
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Re:Scalability, but at what cost? (2015) by brianwawok on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @04:11PM (#11857407)
Ya I love this as a counterpoint to much scaling.

Stackoverflow has pretty good uptime and pretty good performance, can't fault the end result.

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Re:Scalability, but at what cost? (2015) by mrep on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @08:00PM (#11866668)
> one of the top-ten sites in the world

49th actually: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com

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Re:Scalability, but at what cost? (2015) by toomuchtodo on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @05:12PM (#11857896)
Physical servers they host themselves, mind you.
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