PRAGMATIC DEVELOPMENT AT STACK OVERFLOW

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Stack Overflow measures everything and optimizes where the data proves it matters: live per-request timings via MiniProfiler, HAProxy log queries, Bosun GC graphs and SQL-server query-plan monitoring catch hotspots. Generating specialized methods for tag-filtered lists speeds pages by about 20% over a generic check for 10 million questions. Deployments use git → dev → canary servers, per-server feature switches and an alpha channel for limited rollout across 150 sites; SQL tuning and GC reductions repeatedly cut latencies in production.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:00Public Announcement
3. 1:17Pragmatic Development
4. 3:59Architecture
5. 4:51Why Is It So Complicated
6. 5:52Coding Style
7. 9:46Batch Processing
8. 14:40Premature Optimization Is the Root of all Evil
9. 15:17What Does Premature Optimization Mean
10. 16:38Stack Overflow
11. 26:46Exceptions
12. 27:22Sequel Server Monitoring Tool
13. 31:37Jon Skeet Problem
14. 32:53Garbage Collections
15. 44:44Pluralistic Management
16. 47:41Jobs

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