Ask HN: Which framework you will use in 2021 to build stack overflow
As per their 2008 blog post, they are built on ASP. Net with other MS technologies. I am planning to build something like SO and was wondering what web framework to go with?
Stack Overflow was able to grow huge because it was built on the Microsoft stack. For a long time it ran on a single database server...a big box with lots and lots of disks and RAM. Because it was a business from the beginning, they were willing to pay for sound technology. They could do so because they were adequately capitalized.
Good luck.
I will explore some other frameworks too. Most likely I will go with mongo rather than postgres.
issues with hundred thousand unique visitors only. i also have this issues using heroku at 2.5GB
If you’re focused just on the thing you’re building use whatever reasonably modern thing you want. I’d probably use flask, MySQL, and avoid a JavaScript framework as long as I could... but that’s just what I’d work fastest in. Do whatever you are most productive in.
I am building it for a region only so I know it can never get traffic comparable to SO.
Most of their traffic is reads, and serving cached HTML is fast whatever backend framework you're using.