[HN Gopher] How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale
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       How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2023-12-02 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | fragmede wrote:
       | Ksplice is the original live patching technology that got bought
       | by Oracle and was later extended to user space programs while I
       | worked there. It's a really neat technology that isn't made
       | obsolete by the move to cloud, since you still don't want to have
       | to restart the whole fleet at scale.
        
       | civilitty wrote:
       | Is MongoDB hyperscale [1]?
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       | [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
        
       | ravenstine wrote:
       | Never heard of this "hyperscale" concept before. How is this any
       | different from... scaling?
        
         | mc32 wrote:
         | Supermarkets and super cars aren't enough. We need hypermarkets
         | and hyper cars to be current. So now we can't just scale, I
         | guess that's for trucks, so to be current you need hyperscale.
        
         | wmf wrote:
         | In general every order of magnitude brings new challenges.
         | Companies running over a million servers have a lot of problems
         | that smaller ones don't. Also they just have more room to
         | amortize R&D.
        
         | revskill wrote:
         | Universe scale i guess.
        
         | tester756 wrote:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperscale_computing
        
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