Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:48:03 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Benjamin Francom <bfrancom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <4FCE6273.9030909@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAMYW4Zi4y16EL1=%2Bsfz1XATc9ZnQpocUD_Xf9Jg=LR=c1AgaKA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAMYW4Zi4y16EL1=%2Bsfz1XATc9ZnQpocUD_Xf9Jg=LR=c1AgaKA@mail.gmail.com>
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[cc freebsd-advocacy] On 05/06/2012 16:56, Benjamin Francom wrote: > I just saw this, and thought I'd share: > > Open Connect Appliance Software > > Netflix delivers streaming content using a combination of intelligent > clients, a central control system, and a network of Open Connect appliances. > > When designing the Open Connect Appliance Software, we focused on these > fundamental design goals: > > - Use of Open Source software > - Ability to efficiently read from disk and write to network sockets > - High-performance HTTP delivery > - Ability to gather routing information via BGP > > Operating System > > For the operating system, we use FreeBSD<http://www.freebsd.org/>; version > 9.0. This was selected for its balance of stability and features, a strong > development community and staff expertise. We will contribute changes we > make as part of our project to the community through the FreeBSD committers > on our team. > Web server > > We use the nginx<http://www.nginx.org/>; web server for its proven > scalability and performance. Netflix audio and video is served via HTTP. > Routing intelligence proxy > > We use the BIRD Internet routing daemon<http://bird.network.cz/>; to enable > the transfer of network topology from ISP networks to the Netflix control > system that directs clients to sources of content. > Acknowledgements > > We would would like to express our thanks to the FreeBSD community, the > nginx community, and Ondrej and the BIRD team for providing excellent open > source software. We also work directly with Igor, Maxim, Andrew, Sergey, > Ruslan and the rest of the team at nginx.com<http://www.nginx.com/>, who > provide superb development support for our project." >
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