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Sometimes Constraints Are Good

by tiberriver256 on 11/8/22, 4:00 PM with 1 comments

• by mre on 11/8/22, 4:09 PM

  > Stackoverflow is reliably adopting the latest and greatest .NET technology. They are always at the leading edge using early releases of ASP.NET Core. They handle insane amounts of traffic with excellent performance.

  I guess that's mostly a testament to the effectiveness of caching. My guess is that 95% (maybe more?) of all the traffic on SO is read-only. A caching-layer like Varnish/Nginx would be performant in front of any backend. We used to have a similar amount of traffic with PHP in the backend and it was just fine.

  Fully agree with the rest of the post, though. Keep it simple.