Re:Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
by lmm on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @11:35AM
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> You have to keep in mind we're ridiculously over-provisioned, we're handling that load while maintaining 10-15% utilization on 3 year old web servers.
So you've premature-optimized for performance far past the point where you gained anything from it?
I'm not saying you shouldn't be happy with your performance, but if the best thing you can say about your platform is "it has adequate performance" then, well, it's not a very compelling platform.
Re:Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
by Nick-Craver on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @11:55AM
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Not at all, we did the performance optimizations to make page loads faster for our users...the side effect is less load on our servers.
It's an awesome platform for us and we love it...you should choose whatever platform works for you.
Re:Stack Exchange's monitoring system is now open source
by profquail on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @02:01PM
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C# is on that chart -- just Ctrl+F and search for 'mono'.
If you select the 'Win' hardware tab near the top of the page, you'll be able to see figures for Windows as well: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6&hw=wi...
You have to keep in mind we're ridiculously over-provisioned, we're handling that load while maintaining 10-15% utilization on 3 year old web servers. Also, we're rendering quite a bit of dynamic data when rendering each page in < 40ms (the average for a question page on Stack Overflow yesterday was 36ms).
We render every request we get in a very speedy manner, usually with 90% headroom and utilizing only 1 DB server (also at only 10-15% utilization)...we're pretty happy with that.