Linked Questions

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I am curious to know, is Stack Overflow written in Ruby on Rails?

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I do not find it cozy to leave footprints on Facebook, Google and alike upon every single step I do on the Internet. For this purpose I use a script blocker. Now I found that Stack Overflow does ...

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2 answers

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Content on the StackOverflow website often updates without refreshing the screen. I understand it is using Ajax, so I break out my handy Firebug, and look for the GET requests on the console but ...

18 votes

2 answers

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Possible Duplicate: What was Stack Overflow built with? I just wanted to know what database StackOverflow uses. The site seems pretty active and very responsive.

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How many servers are used to host a commercial website like StackOverflow? Are there caching appliances involved?

11 votes

1 answer

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Where is Stack Overflow hosted? Is it in its own structure, or is it in some other data center?

17 votes

1 answer

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Possible Duplicate: Which tools and technologies were used to build the Trilogy? What programming language was used to create Stack Overflow?

12 votes

2 answers

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Precisely which type of markdown (afaik there are quite a few variants) and editor (the one I am typing in right now) is Stack Overflow using? I understand, there must be a JavaScript realtime ...

3 votes

2 answers

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Do you use agile or waterfall? What documentation is kept?

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1 answer

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Possible Duplicates: What are the architecture details of Stackoverflow? What was Stack Overflow built with? Where can I find articles introducing the architecture or technologies used by Stack ...

3 votes

3 answers

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i just wanted to know how many servers Stack Overflow runs on, with 240,000 users on the site, im thinking they have 1,000 of servers? but i wondered if you guys knew

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3 answers

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Stack Overflow is developed using ASP.NET and C#. I found this fact in various answers here. So, I was wondering which database Stack Overflow uses. Is it Microsoft SQL Server, as would be expected ...

9 votes

1 answer

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Possible Duplicate: Which tools and technologies are used to build the Stack Exchange Network? Has anyone a link to the Stack Exchange markup syntax? Yeah, I know, surely there is another question ...

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1 answer

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As the title goes, Does Stackoverflow (the website) use any Bootstrap?

3 votes

2 answers

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Possible Duplicates: Will Open Sourcing Stack Overflow Destroy Our Business Model? What was Stack Overflow built with? Stack Overflow is a very modern discussion forum, very fast and effective. ...