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That's the first thing that came to mind as well, and Stack Overflow definitely operates at scale, but OP asked for people doing distributed systems. SO is famously monolithic, famously operating from just a handful of machines.

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If anything, Stack Overflow should be taken as an example that large scale operations can be run a lot more simply than many of us are making them.

I think this was changed a bit since moving to dot net core ( not sure).

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