At Stack Exchange, we have a certain class of problems that we dub "Stack Overflow problems", which are the kind of thing that nobody ever runs into unless they're pushing systems and software as hard as we push them.

Random thought: we should do a post on various technologies ...

One of the first big changes I've worked on in the few months I've been at Stack Exchange has been to modernize the Puppet environment. People think of Stack Exchange as a Windows shop, and that's partly true since Windows is still the core of the platform ...