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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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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Anyway, I wrote all of Molly Rocket's web site front and back end stuff by hand, and chose the CDN carefully for perf, so I know a lot about what is and is not going on. As a simple example of the ridiculousness, embedded YouTube frames on our site load 10x slower than the site.
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that's casting a huge net. A lot of web developers would agree that the web sucks and most websites suck. Any web developer that enjoys web development isn't worth hiring. Most decent web developers are web developers for exactly one reason: it's the only job they can get.
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I know how smart you are, I watch handmade hero, but for real, experienced developers in one domain shitting on inexperienced developers in another domain is destructive to the craft.
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