📍 Live from the Meet the CEO – September Edition at Protea Hotel Gaborone!

✨ In the room with:

Mr. Zwelibanzi Sapula – CEO, SADC Development Finance Resource Centre - Sadc dfrc

Mr. Randall Newman – CEO, Verbosec

From coding to corner office, tonight’s conversation is all about how tech, innovation, and leadership collide to shape the next generation of trailblazers. 💡💻

#meettheceo #leadership #innovation #verbosec #sadc #sadcdfrc #africa #botswana #proteahotel

🚀 Stack Overflow’s Server Stack — still a performance beast!
(Oddly the page seems to be now deleted but I found it from the archived performance page 📜)
https://web.archive.org/web/20....250222092147/https:/

💡 Key Numbers:
📈 1.3 B page views/month
📦 55 TB data transferred/month

🖥 Web Layer:

9× web servers, each with 64 GB RAM 💪

🗄 Database Powerhouses:

4× SQL Servers → 2 clusters:

Stack Overflow cluster: 1.5 TB RAM, 2.8 TB DB 📊

Other sites cluster: 768 GB RAM, 3.9 TB DB

⚡ Caching:

Redis master + replica, each with 256 GB RAM for lightning-fast responses ⚡🧠

🏷 Tag Engine:

3 servers, 64 GB RAM each, keeping tags ultra-snappy 🏷✨

🔍 Search Layer:

3× Elasticsearch servers, 196 GB RAM each — finding that obscure answer in milliseconds 🔎

So killing journalists without impunity has been normalised?

Three things a person should focus on everyday - Growth, Health, Community.

So Apple updated the AirPods Max with USB-C and then did nothing else? Interesting. 😂