Joyent ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook 10y before AWS
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> But they made one technical choice that would haunt them forever.
> They built it on Solaris. Developers wanted Linux.
Recently I’ve seen how TrueNAS Core(FreeBSD-based) is being replaced by TrueNAS Scale(Linux-based)[0] and they ended up with an unarguably better product.
Meanwhile Oxide picked Solaris over Linux[1].
I vaguely remember what it was like to work with Joyner Public Cloud, but it was all an abstraction over APIs just like the Oxide rack, but in terms of GTM speed, it seems like Joyent lost some momentum trying to replicate what AWS found in Linux coming from Xen.
Oxide knows what they’re doing and they have some smart folks over there, however, I still consider a bold move not to pick Linux these days.
[0] https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/truenas-scale-anno...