# Life at Stack Overflow: Operations, Scale and Team Coordination

DevFeed: [Life at Stack Overflow: Operations, Scale and Team Coordination](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/tiny-life-at-stack-overflow-my-developers-are-smarter-than-your-dbas-21597.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://nickcraver.com/talks/tiny/developers-and-dbas>)

Published: 2015-07-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Nick Craver](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nick-craver.md>)

Topics: [Stack Overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/stackoverflow.md>), [HTTP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/http.md>), [Redis](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/redis.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [elasticsearch](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/elasticsearch.md>)

Tags: [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [http](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/http.md>), [redis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/redis.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [stack-overflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stack-overflow.md>), [talks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/talks.md>)

## AI overview

A Stack Overflow talk presents operational scale metrics and discusses capacity, rendering, databases, Redis, Elasticsearch, and team coordination with DBAs.

## Source excerpt

My Developers Are Smarter Than Your DBAs by @Nick_Craver What would you say...you do here? Last month at Stack Overflow: 1,468,389,303 Page Views 5,183,954,727 HTTP Hits 71,562,833,811,315 Bytes Sent 3,202,505,376 CDN Hits 54,400,000,000,000 CDN Bytes 19,532,899,854 SQL Queries 81,505,688,410 Redis Ops 18.2ms Average Render Time ...at roughly 5-10% capacity How do we do that? Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way...turn. We're not ready to turn yet. Being part of a team Disadvantages: You no longer know all the things You don't have time to learn all the things Merge conflicts Advantages: You have help Lots of help More victims for the wheel of blame Pipelines Most interactions with a DBA require 2 people This is true of anyone you're asking for a service Perspective & Scope We know the things we know Except knowing what we know Insight and decisions are based on our world Specifically, the world as we see it Fog of war What does this allow us to do? Tag Engine Elasticsearch Moving /users into redis Anything we want Q&A? We love Q&A.