Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 09:56:47 -0600 From: Benjamin Francom <bfrancom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Netflix's New Peering Appliance Uses FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAMYW4Zi4y16EL1=%2Bsfz1XATc9ZnQpocUD_Xf9Jg=LR=c1AgaKA@mail.gmail.com>
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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." -- Benjamin Francom Information Technology Professional http://www.benfrancom.com
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