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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 c
by godelmachine 8y ago
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.
- AdamJacobMuller 8y agoFacebook uses it, internally, for code/image deploys/updates.
- arcticbull 8y agoTwitter does too - or did - under the name Murder. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys-using-bittorrent.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...