Sat, 06 Apr

Microsoft Stack

Stack Overflow’s original architecture was interesting for me because I was a kind of LAMP guy and their stack was full of Microsoft’s commercial products. Even they mix some of Linux on the stack today.

However Fog Creek’s latest product, Trello was somehow different.

TL;DR: Fog Creek Software develops an internet product using techniques that every Y-combinator startup has been using since spez was sleeping with his laptop so he could reboot Reddit when Lisp crashed in the middle of the night.

And Jeff Atwood started his new open source project, Discourse with Rails.

Like any pragmatic programmer, I pick the appropriate tool for the job at hand. And as much as I may love .NET, it would be an extraordinarily poor choice for an 100% open source project like Discourse.

It doesn’t mean the end of Microsoft. It just shows the goodness of two pragmatic programmers.