[LINK] Facebook uses BitTorrent to distribute updates

Martin Barry marty at supine.com
Sat Apr 21 06:52:54 AEST 2012


$quoted_author = "Jan Whitaker" ;
> 
> I don't think they are using the public network 
> BT, but a closed system to update their own servers.

Twitter does something similar and they've even open sourced the software.

http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/murder-fast-datacenter-code-deploys.html

cheers
Marty



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