Case Study: Maintaining the World’s Fastest Content Delivery Network at Netflix on FreeBSD Netflix is a global entertainment company that revolutionized the way people consume TV shows and movies with its streaming service. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, Netflix has grown into one of the world's leading streaming platforms, boasting millions of subscribers in over
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.
Fun fact: WhatsApp also used to run their servers on FreeBSD. Then Facebook bought them and now they use Linux.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028689
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