[winrid]

You don't, really. You can use Django or Perl today and just enable nginx caching for non authenticated users, for many applications.

Stack Overflow didn't need these optimizations. They could have just deployed 20 servers instead and still been profitable. People optimized just because they like to.

[jameshart]

Yes, Microsoft SQL Server is famous for its ability to get faster just by adding more servers.

[winrid]

The discussion isn't really around the DB/SQL Server. As far as I could tell, we were discussing .NET and optimizations in its ORM.