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Comment by shereadsthenews | Hacker News Reader

How did you determine that Facebook leads this space? I recently read an article about how Facebook distributes RPMs internally and it struck me as the kind of thing an insane person might have invented fifteen years ago. I mean, NFS in front of glusterfs? Also, RPMs???? Talk about bananas.

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What's wrong with RPMs?

It has a bunch of well built and supported tooling, including dependency management, dependencies, and versioning /s

Nothing. I quite like using them to deploy applications. If you package them right and build your deployment system correctly, they're not the worst way to do things.

I'm mostly guessing based on what I've read over the years. They've published a hefty corpus of work regarding their deployment infrastructure and greater code review/quality approach.

Here's a few examples: - https://code.fb.com/web/rapid-release-at-massive-scale/. - https://www.quora.com/How-does-Facebook-release-deploy-proce...

Something else happened.

This was not a configuration issue.

I'm mostly guessing

!!!

I mean, yea, I don't work there, so I'm intuiting based on:

my own professional experience

deductive reasoning

general...intuition

!!!

“Intuiting” is a funny way to spell “just making shit up”

Could you link the article?

https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/PhilDibowitz/centos-at-fac...

Thanks. What I read there seems sensibile to me.

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