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I work on the OCA team at Netflix. I can confirm we run FreeBSD on our CDN servers.

I was at Google for several years before Netflix, and I believe that any claims of FreeBSD being used by Google are either outdated or misguided. AFAIK, Google was linux from day 1.

video from AsiaBSDCon 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZZN8Szh14

interview with Scott Long of Netflix on BSD Now http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_12_25-the_gift_of_giving

https://openconnect.netflix.com/software/

Netflix has the OpenConnect server/service that is used to bring content closer to the users by caching content at the ISP. It's a FreeBSD box with NginX and Bird BGP

Also WhatsApp

And NetApp

Yahoo! was using FreeBSD machines in production for many years. They were very stable. Since WhatsApp team came out of Yahoo!, they kept using FreeBSD machines.