Recently, Twitter began using BitTorrent to speed deployments across its thousands of servers:
“It was time for something completely different, something decentralized, something more like.. BitTorrent.. running inside of our datacenter to quickly copy files around,” Twitter engineer Larry Gadea explains.
The new BitTorrent-powered system “turned a 40 minute deploy process into one that lasted just 12 seconds.”
Read more: BitTorrent Makes Twitter’s Server Deployment 75x Faster | TorrentFreak.
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