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by rbanffy 4414 days ago
> Stackoverflow for one.

That's no longer completely true. While the core continues to run on Windows, SQL Server and .NET, pretty much everything around it is Linux-based and without that additions, the system would be unable to maintain its current performance.
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UK-AL 4414 days ago
As far i'm aware that's the caching software. .NET is performant(And probably faster) than the common open source platforms like python, php, ruby.

Any platform would have problems without caching.

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wfjackson 4413 days ago
I remember they had to patch the OpenSSL bug so they are not using IIS for the SSL endpoint.
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