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What development technologies are used to develop some particular famous web sites?

What web technologies, like programming-languages, frameworks, libraries, ..etc, were used to develop a particular famous web-service, especially Web2.0s.

For example, Ruby on Rails is used to develop: Odeo, A List Apart, Twitter, 43 Things. (Source1) (Source2)

PHP is used to develop: Facebook, Photobucket, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Digg. (Source)

And yes, including Stack Overflow ;)

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ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET

Konstantinos  2009-05-22 09:15:04
Thanks for this great list!
Moayad Mardini  2009-05-23 09:10:54
Keep in mind these are not the most visited sites. http://www.alexa.com/topsites contains a decent list of the top visited sites on the internet: If you look at them, I think with the exception of live.com/microsoft.com, none of them are using ASP.NET or some derivative of it.
Floetic  2009-09-29 17:59:51
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This blog tells us how SO was built using ASP.Net MVC.

Colin Desmond  2009-05-22 09:16:46
Thank you, I was looking for this information about the development of SO.
Moayad Mardini  2009-05-23 09:11:25
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PlentyOfFish was built with ASP.NET

User  2009-05-22 09:17:47
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AFAIK, Google uses Python and GWT for most of its projects.

Sergei  2009-05-22 09:18:15
AFAIK, GMail **doesn't** use GWT (and I'm not sure they use it that much internally)
Pascal Thivent  2009-09-29 18:03:59
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Check out this site - lots of good info about this topic: http://highscalability.com/ Specifically, this section: http://highscalability.com/links/weblink/24

cbp  2009-05-22 10:35:14
I love that site!
aleemb  2009-05-22 18:33:46
Thanks for that site, very valuable information!
Moayad Mardini  2009-05-23 09:10:35

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