They are in the process of migrating to .NET core, which runs on Linux.

Wether they choose to move to linux is a different matter.

Web Server: IIS, Database: SQL Server, Web framework (backend): ASP.NET/MVC. Additionally: Redis, Elasticsearch, HAProxy (all on Linux). jQuery on the front end (with some TypeScript) and LESS -> CSS.

You may be gone, but not forgotten, never that, Jeff :)

Did you know that we provide the complete set of questions and answers (from all sites, including Stack Overflow)?

No need to crawl anything.

You can find it on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

And there's also the API - http://api.stackexchange.com

And the Data Explorer (use SQL in the browser to query the Stack Overflow database): http://data.stackoverflow.com

Thanks, thats great..

What you are missing is that there is a cost associated with monetizing the full inventory with automation.

You lose control over what is being shown, you are diluting your brand and you are at risk of alienating your users.

At Stack Overflow we are not willing to make this trade off.

> What you are missing

Automation costs are actually administrative costs (platform fees), which have recently increased via unmonetized opportunity cost models (opportunity being a specific technical term in advertising). SO is not fully or optimally monetizing, probably because they prefer to keep the old tech they are using and/or the staff that has been there since early days. It's also possible they want some dejour/nonstandard controls. Saying they are making an informed tradeoff is simply incorrect. Saying they are making a (unspecified) choice, then not really talking about that choice, is what the article skirts.

Sub 10k/mo for platforms at 2 billion opps per day is AOL and SpotX. That schedule doesn't matter at the volume SO works with. Fees and Opp costs are not the issue with the unmonetized inventory.

Surely you can automate everything but keep manual curation?