The Architecture of Stack Overflow for Teams

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Describes the design and launch of Stack Overflow for Teams, focusing on handling private data in a multi-tenant system that was originally designed as “default public.” Covers the architectural decisions, scalability solutions, and security measures used to enable private, multi-tenant usage of the Stack Overflow platform.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:38Stack Overflow overview
3. 7:14Infrastructure and performance
4. 10:28Scalable monolith
5. 13:15Stack Overflow for Teams origin
6. 17:28Multi-tenant architecture
7. 20:38Data modeling challenges
8. 23:05Per-team schema solution
9. 27:00Provisioning and scalability
10. 29:06Elasticsearch indexes
11. 30:30Redis challenges
12. 31:57Data security and isolation
13. 33:43Secure routing for teams
14. 37:16Project lessons learned
15. 38:56Pre-launch stress tests
16. 39:21Security beyond hackers

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