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always wondered what dA's stack is. anybody has any insight?


Very straightforward traditional LAMP with lots of database sharding and various smart optimizations to handle extreme traffic volumes.

They used to have a custom file storage back-end which resembles something like swift. That may have been replaced with AWS after I left.


They've never made a secret of it being LAMP throughout. There's still some code in there from the original PHP4 site 14 years ago (or at least, there was at the time I left staff).




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