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InfoQ Homepage Presentations Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance

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Scaling Stack Overflow: Keeping it Vertical by Obsessing Over Performance

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Summary

David Fullerton shares some of the things the Stack Exchange tech team have learned along the way while scaling one of the top sites in the world primarily through vertical scaling.

Bio

David Fullerton is the developer-turned-manager responsible for all software development and system administration at Stack Exchange. David joined Stack Exchange, Inc. from Fog Creek Software, where he worked briefly as the developer lead for Stack Exchange 1.0 and as a developer on the FogBugz team. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College.

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  • Stackoverflow architecture

    by Pavel Maltsev,

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    Very interesting presentation! I was sure, that the "Related topics" feature on stackoverflow lives in a separate (micro)service, but it turns out not the case.

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    I don't have Flash anymore.

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    by Roxana Bacila,

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    Hi Henry,
    HTML5 is currently available for mobile devices only, but we are working on implementing this solution for desktop too and it will become available soon.
    Best regards,
    Roxana Bacila
    Community Contributions Facilitator
    InfoQ Enterprise Software Development Community

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