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juliangregorian on Jan 4, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: StackExchange System Architecture

I wonder why they don't use more varnish or other cache servers instead. I've worked on a number of content-driven sites on the same scale as SO and that's a much more common pattern.

patelsan on Jan 4, 2015 [–]

Maybe because most of their stack seems to be running on windows and varnish doesn't run on windows?

juliangregorian on Jan 4, 2015 | [–]

So? They use haproxy. This also doesn't mean they can't use whatever the windows equivalent is; I simply don't know what that would be.

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