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Amen. The NIH syndrome at twitter seems to be going strong. They just don't stop reinventing stuff, and usually poorly. In this case uftp is the time-tested so
by moe 16y ago
Amen. The NIH syndrome at twitter seems to be going strong. They just don't stop reinventing stuff, and usually poorly.
In this case uftp is the time-tested solution, made precisely for this purpose (mass deployment) and provably better on all metrics (speed, bandwidth, security via SSL, complexity).
The mind remains boggled...
- nullstyle 16y agoYou do realize that twitter didn't invent bittorrent, right? ;)
- alec 16y agoThey appear to have invested substantial time into integrating it with their deployment system and improving its performance for their particular network situation rather than using off-the-shelf software like uftp.