Stack Overflow Architecture

Most of you know that High Scalability resource is the best if you looking information about scalability, reliability … But most of the information are concerning about Java and NoSQL database. Last week they provide good post about Stack Overflow Architecture for revise solution what based on the Microsoft stack.

Stack Overflow Architecture post will be interesting for the any architects to realize what is behind of architecture. I am talking about tools, environment configuration is used to save over 95 million of page views in a month.

If you review references in the post you may find topic about lessons learned what as per me is really useful and give you some feedbacks about hosting challenges on datacenters.

Database aspects of this posts are related to DB schema what is really critical for hosted solutions because most of the performance issues are there. My favorite thing about SQL is question why they do not use NoSQL database – the answer is quite simple – if current solution what is based on MS SQL 2008 feet their needs and simplify their development why they should invest many to migration?

Additional interesting aspects is strategy for Scale Up what Stake Overflow is following. Most of us thinking lets setup/rent/buy more servers and it solves our issues but if you pay licensing fee this will be significant expensive.

As the final shoot – please read this post it contains a lot of interesting references to another topics and before use any approach what is posted on any site please think carefully if it’s really fit you and you have budget for this …