In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Sean Chittenden of Groupon. They discuss the ways ZFS has saved his data, in addition to Groupon’s recent switch to FreeBSD. Hit play below to tune in:
Original: http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_06_24-bitrot_group_therapy
Sean Chittenden speaks about Groupon’s use of FreeBSD during BayLISA June 2015.
Groupon is making use of FreeBSD for its databases. In this talk, the following will be covered:
Why Groupon made the switch
What have been some of the benefits
What performance impacts have been observed
What did it take to begin supporting FreeBSD for production use
What have been some of the benefits
What were some of the challenges that were encountered from the
switch
Interesting work happening in FreeBSD that is relevant to the future