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The Architecture of StackOverflow - Developer Conference 2013

Slides of the "Architecture of StackOverflow" talk given at Developer Conference 2013

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Transcript

  1. The  Architecture  Of   Marco Cecconi @sklivvz [email protected]

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  5. 560,072,448  pageviews  in  the  last  30  days*      

    (~100%  growth  year  over  year)   *source: Quantcast
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  7. web servers load balancers redis search database http(s) http rest

    http protobuf sql sql protobuf tag engine
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  10. We  are  sOll  scaling  up…    

  11. Few projects :-)

  12. Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-)

  13. Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-) Eeek! very

    few tests :-S

  14. Few projects :-) Few lines of code :-) Awesome community

    to help :-D Eeek! very few tests :-S

  15. YAGNI*   It  works.   * You Ain’t Gonna Need

    It!

  16. BATCAVE

  17. BATCAVE DEV.SO

  18. BATCAVE META.SO DEV.SO

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  20. BATCAVE META.SO NETWORK DEV.SO

  21. Move  fast  and  break  things    

  22. Move  fast  and  break  things*   * Not the home

    page or question page :-)

  23. Move  fast  and  break  things*   * Not the home

    page or question page :-)

  24. 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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  30. * Source http://bit.ly/1eSLr8Z

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  34. Reinvent  a  beWer  wheel!   Open  source  all  the  wheels!

     
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  36. WE <3 GEEKS

  37. DOWN TO THE METAL \m/

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  39. BAT CAVE

  40. Ir=kag=omz=pqoapq=ftue,=ymknq=iq=omz=fmxw=vane1Zewxuhhl&efmowahqdrxai.oay $_='@mk=uf=radimdp1Z--&ewxuhhl';tr/=1m-za-l@&Z/ !a-zP@\n/&print; Marco Cecconi @sklivvz [email protected]