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by collyw 2243 days ago
My point is that Stack Overflow seems to have kept things as simple as possible, the opposite of a "complicated distributed system". It seems to be a classical relational databases backed app with some additions for specific parts where it needed to scale. In the end I guess it is distributed but it looks like its based largely around a monolith.

https://stackexchange.com/performance