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Every iteration of this prezzo I've seen over the years has made for a fascinating morning read, thanks! As much as I enjoy the results of the work, I'm always
by sophacles 4y ago
Every iteration of this prezzo I've seen over the years has made for a fascinating morning read, thanks!
As much as I enjoy the results of the work, I'm always a bit curious how the sausage is made. Is pushing the hardware limits your primary job or something you do periodically? How do you go about selecting the gear you use? How much do you work with the vendors? (etc etc) I'd really enjoy a behind the scenes blog post or something wrt this serving absurd amounts of traffic from a single box.
- drewg123 4y agoMy role is to make our CDN servers more efficient. One of the easiest and most fun ways to do that is to push servers as hard as I can and see what breaks and what doesn't scale. I also work with our hardware team and their vendors to evaluate new hardware and how it can fit into our system. But I do plenty of other things as well, including fixing random kernel bugs. You can read the git log of the FreeBSD main branch to see some of the things I've been working on..