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Why We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin

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Why We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin

Netflix engineer Drew Gallatin explains why the company runs FreeBSD-current on its CDN. He describes the team, how they track upstream, their contributions and performance milestones, and a bug causing a 20% performance regression.

HN cites it as the Netflix case for staying close to -CURRENT and upstreaming changes.

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