On: World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years

[godelmachine]

I was of the opinion that Facebook used P2P / torrent protocol.

>> According to an interview in 2012 with Chuck Rossi, a build engineer at Facebook, Facebook compiles into a 1.5 GB binary blob which is then distributed to the servers using a custom BitTorrent-based release system.

Above part is taken directly from Wikipedia article on Facebook - "Technical Aspects" section.

[arcticbull → godelmachine]

Twitter does too - or did - under the name Murder.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...

[AdamJacobMuller → godelmachine]

Facebook uses it, internally, for code/image deploys/updates.