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At Netflix, in my larger work group, we have at least 7 FreeBSD committers, and one core team member (and I'm sure I'm forgetting some folks and I'm sorry!). W
by drewg123 7y ago
At Netflix, in my larger work group, we have at least 7 FreeBSD committers, and one core team member (and I'm sure I'm forgetting some folks and I'm sorry!). We have employed (on specific contracts) many other committers and core team members.
Unlike Yahoo, we are accountable to Netflix's business goals of increasing our streaming customer's Quality of Experience while still maintaining or reducing the cost to deliver content. Frequently those goals align nicely with FreeBSD's goals, and we have contributed a great deal (async sendfile, kTLS, unmapped mbufs, epoch stabilization, NUMA work, RACK TCP, BBR TCP, TCP pacing, and tons of stuff I'm forgetting).
- naikrovek 7y agoThat's excellent, and I'm very happy to learn this. Thank you.
- porker 7y ago> At Netflix, in my larger work group, we have at least 7 FreeBSD committers Oh that's good to hear. Reading Brendan Gregg's blog [1] I got the impression that Netflix had switched to Linux. 1. http://www.brendangregg.com/ http://www.brendangregg.com/
- emaste 7y agoNetflix has used Linux in EC2 for their C&C infrastructure and FreeBSD on their OCA content serving appliances since the beginning.