Questions tagged [architecture]
Here, "architecture" refers to Stack Exchange's database structures, algorithms in the code that runs the sites, &c. Questions that should use this tag are sometimes incorrectly tagged [design].
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Is there publicly available build history of the sites?
I got a comment on my recent question about the reason why there are no recent builds on SE sites:
Historically, the company has its annual meeting/get-together in April.
I understood that comment ...
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Review queues architecture wrap up
The planned work on Review Queues includes Backend Architecture changes (listed on our Public Platform roadmap for February). As this project is now concluded, I would like to report to the Community ...
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Documentation for Stack Exchange engine URLs?
I have found mentions of various Stack Exchange engine URLs (/question/NNNN, /question/NNNN/question-title-spelled-out, /answer/NNNN, /user/NNNN, /q/NNNN, /a/NNNN, /u/NNNN, etc.) scattered around in ...
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What is the caching architecture of Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Having a good understanding of how expensive DB queries are and the importance of caching static data, I can't understand how the question pages on these sites run so quickly.
We have a question ...
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How much of Stack's imgur image-ID space has been consumed?
Images posted to Stack's imgur space have the following URL structure:
https://i.sstatic.net/Apnr6.png
This implies to me that images stored there have a five-character ID, with at least 62 possible ...
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Does StackExchange still store its data in a denormalised format, then normalise when needed?
I read an article on the Trello tech stack, under the section "MongoDB", it states the following:
[...] One of the coolest and most performance-obsessed teams we know is our
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How about a good user interface backed up with a robust backend instead of 100+ different sites? [closed]
This is bound to catch some wind from the front, because it goes in totally against the just fresh choice of separating SE meta from Stack Overflow Meta, but just hang in to read it.
Analysis of ...
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Where to Get Software design feedback [duplicate]
I know this site is for very specific programming questions. Does anyone have any recommendations for sites that allow longer discussions on technology choices and perhaps even discussion of specific ...