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Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] (2021) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738 (I don't
by password4321 11mo ago
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s on FreeBSD [pdf] (2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
(I don't share this as "the answer" as much as one example from years past.)
- HumanOstrich 11mo agoI think they used FreeBSD because they were already using FreeBSD. The article doesn't mention Linux.
- victorbjorklund 11mo agoTo be honest, I think when I heard them speak, they're kind of saying yes, FreeBSD is awesome but that the main reason is that the early people there liked FreeBSD so they just stuck with it. And that it's a good choice, but they don't claim these are things that would be impossible to do with optimizations in Linux.