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IMO your assertion is validated by the excellent overview of Stack Overflow's infrastructure given here:

https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

Very few web apps will ever serve as much traffic as SO.




SO doesn't have a very operationally complex app.

A bank running 50 different services, on different platforms, with serious audit requirements, physical and logical access control, strict change and configuration management, etc., has two orders of magnitude more complexity. And that shit is very expensive in manpower.


"Very few web apps will ever serve as much traffic as SO."

Their traffic is like 80-90% reads and they actually hire good devs and let them work on perf.

Neither of those things are true in typical companies.




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