Stack Overflow (website)

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Stack overflow
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Question-and-answer platform on programming
languages English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese
operator Stack Exchange, Inc.
editorial staff User (registered and unregistered)
user over 10 million (June 2019)
Registration optional (necessary to ask and answer questions)
On-line August 2008 (currently active)
https://www.stackoverflow.com/

StackOverflow (English for stack overflow ) is an Internet platform that appeal to software developers intended. Its developers were inspired by the software bug of the same name, the stack overflow.

history

Stack Overflow was programmed by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008 . It was their intention to collect the hidden knowledge that could be found in various forums and books and to make them available on a website. All questions and answers are under a Creative Commons license on Stack Overflow and can therefore be used by anyone.

A year after Stack Overflow opened, developers introduced a "time-out" feature in response to users unwilling to learn the rules of the community or learn from their mistakes.

In May 2010, the founders of Stack Overflow raised a capital of around 6 million US dollars in an initial financing round; at this point the site was already reaching 7.1 million different users per month.

Since mid-2010 it has been possible to use the Stack Exchange Data Explorer to analyze and query data from Stack Overflow and other pages of the Stack Exchange network ; since 2016 this has been possible using the Google service BigQuery .

Since 2011, Stack Overflow has been producing a so-called Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey , an annual development report in which the users of Stack Overflow are asked about their programming languages, their field of activity, their involvement in open source projects and other things.

On March 20, 2017, the 10 millionth question was asked at Stack Overflow, in January 2018 the software developer Jon Skeet became the first person to achieve a reputation of one million.

use

Stack Overflow is a platform on which registered users can ask questions about software development that other users can answer. The questions asked and the answers given can be viewed by anyone on Stack Overflow without registration. The content posted by users is under the Creative Commons license “Attribution-Distribution under the same conditions”. Stack Overflow is the origin and largest side of the Stack Exchange network, which now contains a large number of different question-and-answer websites.

The answers given can be rated by users. The answers can be displayed sorted by rating. In addition, the questioner has the option to mark a given answer as the best solution for his problem. Users earn when z. B. a given answer is rated as good, reputation points.

Stack Overflow has ten million registered users, over 15 million questions asked, and 23 million answers. Based on the tags assigned to the questions, the most common topics are JavaScript , Java , C # and PHP (as of March 2019).

technology

Stack Overflow is written in C # with the ASP.NET MVC Model View Controller Framework and uses a Microsoft SQL Server as a database.

Stack Overflow has been using the distributed version control system Mercurial since April 2010 .

Hacker attack

On May 16, 2019, Stack Overflow announced it had been hacked. According to the company, the attack should have taken place five days earlier, on May 11, 2019, but the hackers should not have been able to access customer data.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All Sites - Retrieved June 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ The unproven Path. November 1, 2008, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Introducing Stackoverflow.com. April 16, 2008, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Case Studies / StackOverflow.com. Accessed May 17, 2019 .
  5. ^ A Day in the Penalty Box. April 6, 2009, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  6. ^ Stack Overflow raises $ 6M to take its Q&A model beyond programming. May 4, 2010, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Introducing Stack Exchange Data Explorer. June 13, 2010, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  8. ↑ You Can Now Play with Stack Overflow Data on Google's BigQuery. December 15, 2016, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  9. ^ Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey. Accessed May 17, 2019 .
  10. ↑ 10,000,000th question is here! [closed]. March 20, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Thanks a Million, Jon Skeet! January 15, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  12. ^ Stack Overflow: Jon Skeet. Accessed May 17, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b https://stackexchange.com/sites
  14. ↑ Tags. In: Stack Overflow. Retrieved July 20, 2017 .
  15. ↑ What Was Stack Overflow Built With? September 21, 2008, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  16. ^ Stack Overflow and DVCS. April 23, 2010, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Stack Overflow developer platform hacked. May 17, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Stackoverflow Blog: Security Update. May 19, 2019, accessed on May 17, 2019 .