We Don’t Use Docker

Re:We Don’t Use Docker by weinzierl on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @08:21AM (#26475738)

I totally agree with your main point and SO is kind of the perfect example. At the same time it is kind of the worst example because for one, to the best of my knowledge, their architecture is pretty much an outlier, and for another it is what it is for non-technical historical reasons.

As far as I remember they started that way because they were on a Microsoft stack and Microsofts licensing policies were (are?) pretty much prohibitive for scaling out. It is an interesting question if they would design their system the same way if they'd the opportunity to start from scratch.

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Re:We Don’t Use Docker by systemvoltage on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:21AM (#26477961)

Most people responding here are nitpicking on whether SO’s architecture is the one. I wasn’t trying to imply that at all.

I wanted to drive a point and SO is a good enough example to show that a massive company of the size of SO can run, so can your tiny app.

Don’t scale prematurely. A lot can be done by reasonable vertical scaling.

For one $120k/year Kubernetes infra engineer, you could pay for entire rack of beefy servers.

Obviously YMMV. Discussion about SO and licensing details are distracting.

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