by Cao | Feb 20, 2019 | FreeBSD, Netflix
In this blog, user Abhishek Prakash discusses Netflix’s use of FreeBSD. In fact, quite a large amount of streaming bandwidth goes through FreeBSD servers that are deployed by Netflix in the US. To learn more, below you may also view a talk and slides by Jonathan...
by Cao | Nov 17, 2016 | bsdnow.tv, Netflix, Video
In this BSD Now episode, hosts Allan Jude and Kris Moore interview Scott Long of Netflix regarding his work on FreeBSD for the online streaming giant. Press play below to tune in: Show notes from Jupiter Broadcasting –...
by Cao | Jan 21, 2016 | Netflix
Phoronix has reported that sendfile syscall on FreeBSD has been rewritten to be much faster. Netflix, a company that uses FreeBSD to serve video streams across the country, are the guys behind this project. Log: New sendfile(2) syscall. A joint effort of NGINX and...
by Cao | Apr 18, 2015 | FreeBSD, Netflix
Several developers of Netflix have wrote a paper outlining the optimization for high-bandwidth applications in FreeBSD. To view it, click the image below. Link: https://people.freebsd.org/~rrs/asiabsd_2015_tls.pdf
by Cao | Apr 18, 2015 | Netflix
Netflix is one of the major companies to utilize FreeBSD servers. Their streaming services account for a large amount of internet traffic in many countries. Original post:...
by Cao | Mar 14, 2015 | FreeBSD, Netflix
Brendan Gregg, a senior performance architect at Netflix, gives a talk about various FreeBSD flame graphs. At the last FreeBSD Developer and Vendor Summit, I gave a talk on “Flame Graphs for FreeBSD”, where I summarized the different types (CPU, memory,...
