I work for Netflix on Open Connect, the Netflix CDN. We run a modified FreeBSD on our CDN nodes. My job involves improving performance and scalability in the FreeBSD kernel. See https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/serving-100-gbps-from-an...
Very much like the NFS article author describes, I also tend to find "naive" solutions that end up being polished a lot before landing upstream.
drewg123|7 years ago