what makes you think that? that would require that every application server has a copy of the entire database at all times. that's contradicted by this description of their architecture: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-architecture-2016-edition/ …
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I wasn't really joking with my original post. Web developers hand wave at a lot of actually hard problems ("it's network latency! it's data coherency! it's scalability") but if you actually profile the sites, none of those things are actually the problem.
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The problem is just good old fashion shitty code, written by people who either don't know or don't care about how the way their program works affects the end user's experience. End of friggin' story.
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