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FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022
Netflix engineer Drew Gallatin's EuroBSDcon 2022 talk quantifies the older FreeBSD optimizations that let Netflix serve web traffic at 800Gb/s, including TSO, LRO, VM page cache zones, asynchronous sendfile and unmapped mbufs.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as the recorded talk behind the Netflix 800Gb/s slides and as a deep look at kernel-level optimizations for high throughput.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- EuroBSDCon
- Topic
- high-throughput kernel networking
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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This talk was given at this years EuroBSDcon in Vienna, recording is up on YouTube. [LINK] [VIDEO] Some really great talks this year from all the *BSDs, highly recommend checking a look: [LINK]
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