paulruizendaal wrote:

> Hi bird hats, here's some interesting reads:
>
> There's a write-up about stackoverflow.com architecture here:
> http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/8/5/stack-overflow-architecture.html
>
> It is different in the sense that it uses an all-Microsoft stack and that the database is more scale-up than scale-out (SQLServer running on 8 cores in 48GB of memory).

Although I admire stackoverflow as a website and concept, and I use it a
lot, I listened to Jeff Atwood on many podcast(s) and even read a few
posts on his blog, and I see that architecture as quite amateur (not to
say any harsh words). He's thinking on the same level you would expect
from some grad student without any field experience. His partner, Joel
Spolsky is quite different story, but I'm afraid he doesn't have much
say in technical "department", especially since they haven't hit the
brick wall yet. IMHO, of course. Sooner or later they will hit the limit
of such system and will not be able to scale it anymore, and then
they're going to be in for a "big rewrite". OTOH, they do have a niche
market, so maybe they will not reach this limit ever.

Just my $.02 - I hope I don't get my SO account canceled over this :)

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Milan Babuskov

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