Matt Warren • 9/1/2014

Stack Overflow - performance lessons (part 1)

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This article examines the performance engineering lessons from Stack Overflow, highlighting their culture of prioritizing speed. It details their scale-up approach using custom-built servers over cloud hosting, and discusses extreme optimizations like reducing garbage collection costs, even at the expense of practices like unit testing and certain abstractions.

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