<story><title>A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1210997702152069120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IndrekR</author><text>A site for proof. It keeps amusing me on what hardware&amp;#x2F;software Stack Overflow&amp;#x2F;Stack Exchange is running on:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;performance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;performance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is way less in HW than most people in the trade (from web devs to devops) seem to think when asked about it.&lt;p&gt;SO ranks #36 in Alexa right now:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexa.com&amp;#x2F;siteinfo&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexa.com&amp;#x2F;siteinfo&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>riyadparvez</author><text>One thing to keep in mind that their work-load is very ready-heavy which eases things a lot when scaling the system. The same is true for Wikipedia. Scaling a write-heavy workload is way more complex than scaling a read-heavy workload.</text></comment>
<story><title>A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server</title><url>https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1210997702152069120</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>IndrekR</author><text>A site for proof. It keeps amusing me on what hardware&amp;#x2F;software Stack Overflow&amp;#x2F;Stack Exchange is running on:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;performance&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;stackexchange.com&amp;#x2F;performance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is way less in HW than most people in the trade (from web devs to devops) seem to think when asked about it.&lt;p&gt;SO ranks #36 in Alexa right now:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexa.com&amp;#x2F;siteinfo&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.alexa.com&amp;#x2F;siteinfo&amp;#x2F;stackoverflow.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fnord77</author><text>&amp;gt; That means we transfer 55 TB data &amp;#x2F; month&lt;p&gt;this isn&amp;#x27;t a lot.  Helps that site is mostly text data.&lt;p&gt;I know of a relatively small cloud security system that transfers petabytes&amp;#x2F;month to&amp;#x2F;from a handful of customers.&lt;p&gt;4 ingest pods, 8 pipeline pods, 7 time-series db servers, 2 sql servers</text></comment>