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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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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If you look at why, it's pretty straightforward. The profile is f'ing nuts. The things the YouTube programmers do just to display a single static image with a play button on it is more than everything on our entire site, including our animating icons!
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