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by kelleyk 2754 days ago
Out of curiosity, what do you do that you get to do that? Sounds fascinating---I've had lots of fun with dtrace (and, more recently, bcc).
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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.