Netflix Case Study – FreeBSD Foundation
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    • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
      17•6 months ago

      t y

      We did not make a technical choice to abandon FreeBSD in favor or something else, we made an organizational choice to abandon external hosting in favor of owned and operated hosting which required a lot of technical changes, one of which was switching operating systems.

  • Humulus Lupulus
    6•6 months ago

    I think Varnish can do 1Tbps with a off the shelf Linux without any special hw/firmware.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
    5•6 months ago

    I wonder if the need for speed that Netflix requires has any benchmarks that compares FreeBSD with things like OpenBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL and SUSE.

    • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Yes. Maybe a nice one for the Phoronix website ? I’d guess that OpenBSD would not score that high. OpenBSD is cool for firewalls and servers with focus on security but not sure about speed.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)
        3•6 months ago

        It appears that there’s a bunch of benchmarks for various flavours of BSD already there. I’m not sure how to compare these with each other and various Linux distributions in a meaningful way.

      • Onno (VK6FLAB)
        7•6 months ago

        Uhm. AFAIK, you only have to share code under the GPL if you distribute binaries outside your organisation.

        If it stays in-house, there’s no distribution, thus no requirement to share the source.

        I’m happy to be wrong, feel free to point out what I missed.

      • loathsome dongeaterEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        White what you say is true, I feel like this has more to do with their engineers being better at or more comfortable with FreeBSD or something like that.

        • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
          5•6 months ago

          I’d say we don’t know unless we ask Netflix engineers but the comments about license look like a good one to me. Then there is in my opinion the “bloated” Linux versus the more clean BSD experience (I am a Linux user and I like to tinker with BSD sometimes). Maybe it is still true that BSD will not run on as much hardware as Linux does but have you ever compiled a custom kernel on BSD and compared it to compiling a custom kernel on Linux ? On BSD it is in comparison much easier and the documentation is usually really good.