> As of 2016, Stack Exchange served 200 million requests per day, backed by just four SQL servers: a primary for Stack Overflow, a primary for everything else, and two replicas.
This was the most enlightening piece of the article for me. Their alexa rank today is 48 (globally, 38 in U.S.), so whatever your site is, you are probably not dealing with as heavy a load as them. What techniques do you have to employ to serve this many requests from a single database server?
This was the most enlightening piece of the article for me. Their alexa rank today is 48 (globally, 38 in U.S.), so whatever your site is, you are probably not dealing with as heavy a load as them. What techniques do you have to employ to serve this many requests from a single database server?