🚀 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. 😂

🚀 Excited to share that Spaces is now listed on Y Combinator's Hacker News! 🎉 Check it out and join the conversation about our mission to create a more meaningful social networking experience. Your support means everything! 🙌

🔗https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41271835

 

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