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Re:Migrating to CockroachDB by koolba on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:32PM (#22262736)
Does StackOverflow use a single SQL Server databases for all writes for the entire platform?

They must at least have read replicas given the traffic for the site.

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Re:Migrating to CockroachDB by taspeotis on Thursday February 06, 2020 @09:33PM (#22262746)
https://stackexchange.com/performance
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Re:Migrating to CockroachDB by no_wizard on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:54PM (#22263344)
This is a surprisingly small amount of infrastructure considering its size
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Re:Migrating to CockroachDB by thrower123 on Friday February 07, 2020 @06:50AM (#22265117)
It just highlights how overcomplicated most setups are, really.

I feel like you need more hardware than that for a hello world kubernetes tutorial...

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Re:Migrating to CockroachDB by janee on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:20PM (#22262955)
Some more info if interested https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15427124

Bit outdated but probably still holds true.

It's pretty amazing what SQL Server can do...just wish it wasn't so expensive

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