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Some would say the only notable example is Netflix and it’s likely because of the aforementioned warm fuzzies which align with the ages of people who made the d
by rrdharan 3y ago
Some would say the only notable example is Netflix and it’s likely because of the aforementioned warm fuzzies which align with the ages of people who made the decision to go with it.
WhatsApp also used a BSD IIRC but I imagine they’ve transitioned to Meta’s standard stack by this point.
- toast0 3y ago> WhatsApp also used a BSD IIRC but I imagine they’ve transitioned to Meta’s standard stack by this point. Yes, that happened. I was there. FreeBSD is great and we would have continued to use it, but as an aquisition, you can only push back on so much of the incumbent tech stack. Much of the team had experience at Yahoo and saw how hard it is for acquisitions to run in the same infrastructure if they're running a different OS, so we spent zero time asking to run FreeBSD at Facebook. The hardware at Facebook was quite a bit different, so there was never an apples to apples comparison to say whether one OS (as tuned) was better than the other at the use case. They clearly both work, and I've got my opinions and other people have theirs, and that's fine.