Maintaining the world’s fastest CDN at Netflix on FreeBSD(freebsdfoundation.org)

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lemmyreader@lemmy.ml

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Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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6 months ago

Fun fact: WhatsApp also used to run their servers on FreeBSD. Then Facebook bought them and now they use Linux.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028689

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lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOP

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6 months ago

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We did not make a technical choice to abandon FreeBSD in favor or something else, we made an organizational choice to abandon external hosting in favor of owned and operated hosting which required a lot of technical changes, one of which was switching operating systems.

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