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Re:How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012 by dboreham on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:26AM (#20505880)
First time hearing doesn't make it not true. For some historical perspective: MS engaged in a performance battle (which they won) vs Netscape Web Server running on Solaris (with IIS) since 1995 or so, including making changes to the NT kernel. So it wouldn't surprise me this attitude continued forward into the recent era. SQL Server has similarly been in a performance battle with Oracle for decades. MS has whole teams just dedicated to performance, to creating performance engineering tooling etc.
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Re:How Stack Overflow upgraded from Windows Server 2012 by p_l on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:21PM (#20548282)
Interestingly, Stack Overflow is using several of those tricks to speed up their internal services, as the kernel-side HTTP server is made available to everyone, it's not locked to MS applications. AFAIK they have few "microservices" which don't use IIS but handle HTTP through HTTP.sys

SQL Server has huge amounts of tuning and cooperation with NTFS driver team to ensure good performance, and frankly, it's at the high-end of the databases, and I really wouldn't mind using it except for price :(

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