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Marco Cecconi
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The Architecture of StackOverflow - Developer Conference 2013
Slides of the "Architecture of StackOverflow" talk given at Developer Conference 2013
Marco Cecconi
November 07, 2013
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Transcript
The Architecture Of Marco Cecconi @sklivvz
[email protected]
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#54 network for traffic* …and #7 in Germany, thank
you! *source: Quantcast, Alexa
560,072,448 pageviews in the last 30 days*
(~100% growth year over year) *source: Quantcast
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web servers load balancers redis search database http(s) http rest
http protobuf sql sql protobuf tag engine
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We are sOll scaling up…
Few projects :-)
Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-)
Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-) Eeek! very
few tests :-S
Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-) Awesome community
to help :-D Eeek! very few tests :-S
YAGNI* It works. * You Ain’t Gonna Need
It!
BATCAVE
BATCAVE DEV.SO
BATCAVE META.SO DEV.SO
BATCAVE META.SO DEV.SO
BATCAVE META.SO NETWORK DEV.SO
Move fast and break things
Move fast and break things* * Not the home
page or question page :-)
Move fast and break things* * Not the home
page or question page :-)
Network Level Caches (Browser, CDN, etc.) Server Level Cache (HttpRuntime.Cache)
Site Level Cache (Redis) SQL Server Database Cache (384 gigs of RAM!) Solid State Disk
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* Source http://bit.ly/1eSLr8Z
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Reinvent a beWer wheel! Open source all the wheels!
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WE <3 GEEKS
DOWN TO THE METAL \m/
HIRE THE BEST TALENT FROM ANYWHERE
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