The Architecture of Stack Overflow
15:00 - 15:30, 22nd of May (Thursday) 2014/ XL STAGE
Stack Overflow, and its Q&A network Stack Exchange, have been growing exponentially since 2008. They now encompass: 117 Q&A sites 5 million users 9 million questions 15 million answers In this talk, I will describe: The physical architecture of Stack Overflow. How many servers are there? What is their purpose and what are their specs? The logical architecture of the software. How do we scale up? What are the main building blocks of our software? The tooling system. What supports our extreme optimization philosophy? The development team. What are our core values? What footprint do we want to leave as developers?
