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I remember once there was a method to use BitTorrent to deploy images/packages in intranet.

I remembered one called "Murder" which looks like it was a Twitter thing back in the day[0].

Looks like Facebook did it too. I guess there was a phase that tech went through in 2010ish.

[0]https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/murder-fas...

It does make sense to avoid having servers that saturate their link with a zillion identical downloads on every deploy; but I wonder why they went for BitTorrent, rather than using multicast the way e.g. Windows enterprise installs do it.

Coz you need working multicast across entire network or server-per-datacenter to multicast (and data still needs to get to that server).

It's much simpler to just point a server to torrent tracker and let them exchange stuff between themselves

Uber did it too. Kraken is docker registry that gossips containers via bittorrent.

https://github.com/uber/kraken

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