Most of us are aware that Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for programmers. It's built and run by Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites but there are fascinating facts that many of us may not know. Lets explore..

naming the site Stack Overflow is a bit of programmer-oriented humor, indicating that this is where programmers can go when their stack has overflowed - or, in other words, when they're out of ideas and need help

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SO or for that matter Stack Exchange by itself is not profitable yet

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it is available in 5 Languages: English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese

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The name for the website was chosen by voting in April 2008 by readers of Coding Horror, Atwood's popular programming blog.

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there is a sister site softwareengineering.stackexchange.com and it is intended to be a venue for broader queries, e.g. general questions about software development.

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In early May 2019, an update was deployed to Stack Overflow's development version. It contained a bug which allowed an attacker to grant themselves privileges in accessing the production version of the site. Stack Overflow published on their blog that approximately 250 public network users were affected by this breach, which "could have returned IP address, names, or emails

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A 2013 study has found that 75 % of users only ask one question, 65 % only answer one question, and only 8 % of users answer more than 5 questions

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Stack Overflow is written in C# using the ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework, and Microsoft SQL Server for the database and the Dapper object-relational mapper used for data access