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by endisneigh 1174 days ago
What are the biggest apps on the simplest architectures and what are the architectures?
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fabian2k 1174 days ago
Stack Overflow is probably one of the more public examples. That is mostly a C# monolith with a relational database behind it.
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manigandham 1174 days ago
Monolithic apps running on big servers talking to databases running on big servers. Very little orchestration overhead or complexity with serverless and the rest.

Everything from StackOverflow to ad serving systems to high-frequency trading exchanges are run this way.

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endisneigh 1174 days ago
Stack overflow is unique in that it’s most read only. Link to high frequency trading “boring” architecture?
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manigandham 1174 days ago
What is your definition of non-boring architecture? I'm curious as to what you consider the exciting architectures necessary for scaling to make sure we're talking about the same thing.

Quora, Pinterest, Twitter, etc are all just big app instances talking to DB instances, with separate systems for background processing, queues, and caching. Are you suggesting that they would scale better with serverless functions instead?

Here's a list of architectures: http://highscalability.com/all-time-favorites/

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leetbulb 1174 days ago
Ironic that this page is down? (also not https? heh)
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