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Stackoverflow's data is cc-by-sa 4.0 licensed and can be found here: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So nothing is stopping anyone to spin-up multiple instances.
It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
not so sure about that
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Stackoverflow's data is cc-by-sa 4.0 licensed and can be found here: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange So nothing is stopping anyone to spin-up multiple instances.
It's much harder to work with the data if you don't have the code. SO is not open source.
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They wouldn't find a solution because all the good answers were moderated away into oblivion :D
I’ll undelete any good answer you link to here.
So what is their stack, or where can I find more about it? A totally custom webserver? Someone commented to this effect the yesterday [1], but I couldn't find much in the way of a good writeup, except this answer from 2009 [2]. 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32321726 2 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/676326/how-does-stackove...
https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/03/stack-overflow-a-tech...
You mean I gotta start thinking on my own? Not sure that will work.
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https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/03/stack-overflow-a-tech...
Excellent, thank you. "Stack Overflow: How We Do App Caching - 2019 Edition" is particularly informative.
And this is at least the 4th or 5th time within 10 days that either the website is down or performance is badly degraded. So bad for a website that is basically the go-to resource where IT professionals get their answers. So bad that the whole platform is closed-source, so we can't even spin multiple instances. The main resource used by developers and sysadmins around the world is locked and centralized, and when tha…
> We need crawlers and scrapers to download EVERYTHING out of the SE platforms, and they need to do so on a daily basis. All content on SE must be mirrored across the world, and if they don't want to do it then we'll do the scraping for them. I think that's already the case. Whenever I look up a technical issue, the first result is usually from SO; the next results are usually from websites that copied that first SO…
For anyone looking on this from the future, the error page has Content-Type set to text/html but literally returns the text: "The service is unavailable." and a newline character.
And this is at least the 4th or 5th time within 10 days that either the website is down or performance is badly degraded. So bad for a website that is basically the go-to resource where IT professionals get their answers. So bad that the whole platform is closed-source, so we can't even spin multiple instances. The main resource used by developers and sysadmins around the world is locked and centralized, and when tha…
We all joke about the dependency on SO. It seems to actually be more true than perhaps we’d like to admit.
So what is their stack, or where can I find more about it? A totally custom webserver? Someone commented to this effect the yesterday [1], but I couldn't find much in the way of a good writeup, except this answer from 2009 [2]. 1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32321726 2 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/676326/how-does-stackove...