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At G scale you could never afford to run something as grossly wasteful as chef. It would be cheaper to have several full-time engineers maintaining a dedicated
by thedance 7y ago
At G scale you could never afford to run something as grossly wasteful as chef. It would be cheaper to have several full-time engineers maintaining a dedicated on-host config service daemon and associated tools, than it would be for some ruby script to cron itself every 15 minutes.
- antoncohen 7y agoThat's strange, because the closest company to Google scale is Facebook, and they actually use Chef in production[1][2][3] on hundreds of thousands of servers. [1] https://www.chef.io/customers/facebook/ https://www.chef.io/customers/facebook/ [2] https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/facebook-configuration-management-community-and-open-source/ https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/facebook-configuration-... [3] https://github.com/facebook/chef-cookbooks/ https://github.com/facebook/chef-cookbooks/
- thedance 7y ago100s of 1000s. Adorable.