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Worth watching is Justin Cormack's recent presentation on unikernels, LinuxKit, eBPF and databases such as SeaStar:

The Modern Operating System In 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR2FH8z7L04

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Yeah, that's a really good overview. I think it's interesting how progress in the DevOps field is characterized by removing things more than adding them, and I think it's great. In a way I think that's the highest and hardest aim of computing technology, not deciding what to build, but deciding what to leave out.

How could Windows + Linux be 99.9% of the marketshare?

I know not a lot of people are using FreeBSD, but combined with OpenBSD I am pretty sure there are more than 1%.

Edit: Turns out it wasn't a lie.... at least in terms of Web Server usage... FreeBSD has less than 1%.

Sigh.

FreeBSD may have less then 1% of server market share but FreeBSD drives a large amount of network traffic. For example FreeBSD runs the open connect CDN that Netflix uses and that accounts for almost 32% of North American downstream traffic [1]. Limelights edge CDN nodes run FreeBSD and Limelight is one of the Bigger CDN companies out there [2]. Juniper routers are FreeBSD based and are the second most used routers after Cisco. There's plenty of other examples but FreeBSD may not be widely deployed but it serves a significant amount of the worlds internet traffic.

[1]: http://testinternetspeed.org/blog/half-of-all-internet-traff...

[2]: https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/testimonial/limelight-netw...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junos_OS

Really enjoying this talk. Thanks for sharing!

Great talk! Thanks for sharing it.

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