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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Why does the URL to an answer include the question ID?
On Stack Overflow the link to an answer looks like this
https://stackoverflow.com/a/<answer-id>/<question-id>
// https://stackoverflow.com/a/69119825/819887
Out of curiosity:
Why was ...
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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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How often does Stack Exchange get a platform and technology stack review?
I was curious to know how often the SE development team evaluate the current technology stack that powers the sites and what would constitute a good enough reason to migrate?
For example, jQuery was ...
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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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Do all Stack Exchange sites use the same template?
Do all Stack Exchange sites use the same template?
I mean, the Stack Overflow company can create many similar sites, such as:
https://superuser.com
https://askubuntu.com
https://patents....
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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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Messaging failed, Houston didn't get contacted
In the answer on Which browsers are officially supported, and what else do I need? a link is offered to the Network Login Help page.
I'm not sure if that page is still relevant given the changes ...
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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 ...
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How does Stack Overflow store content of question markdowned into their database?
I'm extremely amazed about how Stack Overflow stores content that I'm asking into their database to display (markdowned) in question detail. The content consists of normal text, image, code ...etc.
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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
next-door ...
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How is the Stack Exchange platform deployed to different sites in the network?
There is a similar question here What is Stack Overflow's deployment process?, but it talks about the process with Stack Overflow, I want to know about the whole network.
How is the code deployed ...
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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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Does Stack Overflow use EventSourcing to keep tracking of each change on a post edit?
I'm curious to know how does Stack Overflow store the revisions/versions of each post edition in the database?
Does it represent each edition version in the database, following the Temporal Pattern?
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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 ...
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