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(Tedious disclaimer: not speaking for anybody else, my opinion only, etc. I'm an SRE at Google.)

> Many major companies like Google or Netflix use FreeBSD in production.

Erm. Well, the company's so huge that I'm sure there's something with some freebsd in it somewhere, but... not really.

I've worked with freebsd extensively in a past job, where it was used for licensing reasons. I don't agree with this article.

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Netflix uses FreeBSD as a major component of its CDN (IIRC, it's the OS on all their CDN nodes).

Yup: https://openconnect.netflix.com/software/

They're actively giving back a lot of their work too: http://v4.freshbsd.org/search?q=netflix

Most of the CDN isn't served by open connect but by real CDN like Akamai.

That used to be the case, but Netflix started building out their own CDN a few years ago and they've migrated away from their legacy providers. Netflix is now serving about a third of US peak time internet traffic from FreeBSD.

Do you have any source for that because I still see Akamai serving the content?

Yahoo used to run largely on FreeBSD, at least up to the mid 2000s. Wonder whether they still use it.

They have mostly moved away from it.

New machines are using RedHat. Some of the older machines still run FreeBSD.

Enjoy reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558288 .

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