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C on FreeBSD on EC2. Yes, the dynamic parts of the Tarsnap website are written in C.

• xstartup 9y ago
  Which OS do you use for development?
  • cperciva 9y ago
    Umm... FreeBSD?
  • jrowley 9y ago
    It's a fair question. Many people use FreeBSD just for servers and use other distros for their workstations.
    • cperciva 9y ago
      I guess so. It seems strange to me that anyone would want to inflict upon themselves the pain of using different environments for development vs. production, though.
      • jrowley 9y ago
        You'd think so, but I bet a large portion of developers on hacker news develop on a mac and run their apps in production on a linux distro. At least for web apps.
        • cperciva 9y ago
          Could be. I know a lot of Mac owners who only ever do three things directly in OS X though: Run a web browser, use video conferencing software, and launch linux and BSD virtual machines.
• ComputerGuru 9y ago
  Thanks for your work on the ec2 AMIs. Just deployed a lambda script that spins up a FreeBSD ec2 image that checks out, compiles, and runs the contents of a dynamically provided git url, with dynamically specified pkg and pip dependencies to make my own long-running FreeBSD-based lambda-esque service for some continuous deployment. Wouldn’t have been possible without the ec2 images and the configinit magic. -mqudsi@neosmart
  • cperciva 9y ago
    Awesome! Have you considered writing something about this setup? I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in hearing more.
    • ComputerGuru 9y ago
      Good idea! Hopefully will get around to doing so sooner rather than later :)
• pacificmint 9y ago
  Interesting. What are the main advantages for you to use FreeBSD over Linux?
  • swah 9y ago
    https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-colin-percival/ https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/faces-of-freebsd-coli... tldr cperciva is a long time BSD guy...