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I'm also curious how torrents are used and why.

• PuffinBlue 8y ago
  I would guess that they do something similar to Facebook. Ars covered what Facebook do about 6 years ago, and even then I think they'd been using it for a few years: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-facebook-release-engineering/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/04/exclu... I believe Twitter does something similar too.
  • scurvy 8y ago
    MSN Hotmail and Messenger used torrents to distribute binaries in 2006. It's not new nor novel. And I'm sure someone did it before they did.
    • sitepodmatt 8y ago
      What binaries did MSN Hotmail have? It was the earlier web mail incarnation of outlook.com?
      • scurvy 8y ago
        The Hotmail front-end ran as an ISAPI filter inside IIS. Messenger had lots of standalone binaries for different functions: CS, SB, DP, etc. BitTorrent is used in Dropbox, Twitter, MSN, etc to distribute binaries throughout the server platform, not to end users.
  • rakoo 8y ago
    Twitter dis use BitTorrent for deploying, in a project called 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... Not sure they're still using this