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giantrobot on July 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: In Praise of ZFS on Linux's ZED 'ZFS Event Daemon'

NetFlix is a heavy FreeBSD shop, so I'd assume FreeBSD.

throw0101a on July 20, 2020 [–]

> NetFlix is a heavy FreeBSD shop, so I'd assume FreeBSD.

Kind of: their edge-cache appliances run FreeBSD. IIRC they run Linux on their Amazon cloud for all their 'internal' stuff.

If you do some searches there's some good presentations on their work on getting encrypted streaming to go Very Fast:

* https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Netflix-...

* https://2019.eurobsdcon.org/talk-speakers/#numa

* https://netflixtechblog.com/serving-100-gbps-from-an-open-co...

drewg123 on July 20, 2020 | [–]

UFS on FreeBSD. And that's me :)

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