nick_craver

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by nick_craver 15y ago
The hot backup is in the same New York datacenter, yes. We also have daily backups across the country in our original Oregon datacenter. The whole OR setup is getting love to be a much more resilient failover location as we speak (that'll
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by nick_craver 15y ago
That doesn't really happen, it's an extraordinary event that a raid controller dies. But can it happen? Sure, anything can happen...that's why we have an identical hot backup server only minutes behind on the database for just such an
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by nick_craver 15y ago
Both NY-DB01 (runs everything but Stack Overflow) and NY-DB03 (runs Stack Overflow) have identical backup counterparts: NY-DB02 and NY-DB04. NY-DB04 is on a mirrored config and is always a few minutes behind, while NY-DB02 is restoring sch
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by nick_craver 15y ago
We'll end up paying about that for the 710s, but you have look at what we're getting for the same price. Fusion IO card dies: we're dead in the water. It takes 2-3 of the Intel 710s (in a RAID 10 like they'll be) dying to do the same. Gi
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by nick_craver 15y ago
We have done just that, Lucene.Net runs on the web tier which is otherwise severely under-utilized hardware (all servers sat at under 10% CPU before we moved search to it). But, it will be moving again soon (we're actually discussing that
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by nick_craver 15y ago
This wasn't a change of an entire codebase, only one portion of it (the tag engine). But more importantly, when only 6 web severs are running stackoverflow.com there's a decent chance a non-triggered GC happens stalling the servers in rota
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by nick_craver 15y ago
In the case of an extension method, it's actually just syntactic sugar the compiler provides. An extension method is actually a static method underneath, this allows null checking to be centralized, and cleaner everywhere a step is used.