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Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition

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Re: Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition

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post #19

This might be somewhat unrelated; Is there any reason Stack Overflow decided against deploying on something like the Open Compute Project.

Very likely because at just 6 racks of commodity (i.e. orderable without a salescritter) hardware, they don't need that density or scale.

"Don't fix what ain't broken"

Re: Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition

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post #20

Do you have any plans to run on .NET Core? If so, how soon after it's out as RTM? Any issues with this?

These plans are in flux. At a core level (heh), we nee to have libraries ported first anyway. So we're doing that now. Jil, StackExchange.Redis, Dapper, and Sigil are up on NuGet and core compatible today (some as pre-release). Others like Exceptional are just pending some RC2 goodness to release, and I'll be starting on MiniProfiler after that. We'll likely post other internal tools to .Net Core and start heavy testing in the RC2 time-frame.

Will we run Stack Overflow on core? Probably not for a while. I was asked exactly this in a recent On.Net interview at the 24:22 mark; you can listen here for reasoning: https://youtu.be/DJn8-Psznsw?t=24m22s

Re: Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very likely because at just 6 racks of commodity (i.e. orderable without a salescritter) hardware, they don't need that density or scale.

"Don't fix what ain't broken"

This, more than anything.

There's no compelling reason to invest in such a move for our situation. We're very interested in how Open Compute progresses, though.

Re: Stack Overflow: The Hardware – 2016 Edition

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's at 1.5TB of data and 200GB of T-Logs these days.

It would be cool to see the graph of SQL server RAM size 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB size vs client access latency.

64GB is interesting one because it is ~6% of the total data size.
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