[HN Gopher] Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video]
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Adventures of Linux Userspace at Meta [video]
Author : iso8859-1
Score : 53 points
Date : 2024-01-06 19:02 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| theyinwhy wrote:
| Meta at CCC, I did not think that was possible.
| jaeckel wrote:
| Their media hosting platform is used by many conferences.
| That's a video of a non-CCC conference, called asg, earlier in
| 2023, not to be confused with the recently held congress or
| other CCC headlined events.
| dontupvoteme wrote:
| It's changed a lot in the last few years.
|
| Rather captured one might say.
| pengaru wrote:
| Meta was a primary sponsor for the most recent all-systems-go,
| and employs several folks contributing upstream to systemd.
|
| Also note Lennart is no longer even at RedHat, he's at
| Microsoft nowadays. I'm surprised Microsoft wasn't a major all-
| systems-go sponsor alongside Meta...
|
| There's been a lot of earth shifting under these projects, for
| better or worse.
| JustAPerson wrote:
| Slides: https://cfp.all-systems-go.io/media/all-systems-
| go-2023/subm...
| pixelbeat__ wrote:
| It's worth noting that this discusses the centos based
| provisioning and hardware management platform.
|
| The actual distribution used to _run_ all Meta backend services
| is completely separate and built from source (it does share the
| kernel). This is done for flexibility, performance, service
| isolation reasons
| otterley wrote:
| I'm curious as to why Meta settled on CentOS Stream. Isn't that
| unstable by design? How do they manage change in such a system?
| What are its benefits and drawbacks vis-a-vis the alternatives?
| leoh wrote:
| It may be due to them testing fairly rigorously before
| deployment and thereby benefitting from the latest kernel
| security patches, for example. Google does something similar
| with Debian internally on workstations.
| matthews2 wrote:
| CentOS Stream isn't unstable in the way that something like
| Arch Linux or Debian Sid is.
|
| They effectively only got rid of point releases. Instead of
| going from CentOS 7 to 7.1, you just regularly get updates.
| Since they're a part of the same major release, they don't
| contain breaking changes.
|
| It's no different from running Debian Stable with the -updates
| repository enabled.
| elromulous wrote:
| Just to add to this. It's basically a way to get a rolling
| release.
|
| Google did the same thing with Debian and rodete (ROlling
| DEbian TEsting).
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| https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-
| practitioner...
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| Out of 1 million standard LAMP stack machines, how many will
| randomly fail?
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