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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by mrweasel on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:08PM (#27371209)
It is still one of the most interesting podcasts I’ve listened to. Jeff and Joel completely chanced how I view hardware. So far they’ve been right in that scaling out isn’t something most of us need to worry about for a LONG time. Modern computers are insanely fast and capable of much more than we think.
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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by sitkack on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @01:26PM (#27371465)
Most sites could run on a single mid range machine. Top 500 sites could run on a small cluster of less than 10 machines. You have to balance work to external egress to intracluster bandwidth while accounting for your total random IOP budget.

A well tuned monolith is a beautiful thing.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by 867-5309 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:21PM (#27374174)
a CDN wouldn't go amiss either, or at least some sort of geographic mirroring
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