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		tomkinstinch on April 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Publi... This seems like a great way to deploy code and files to thousands of servers. Anyone here already using BitTorrent for deployment?

nthitz on April 23, 2013 | [–]

TorrentFreak had a few articles about Twitter and FB using BitTorrent for deployment http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-makes-twitters-server-dep... http://torrentfreak.com/facebook-uses-bittorrent-and-they-lo... More recently Ars wrote about it as well http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/exclusive-a-behind-t...

ominous_prime on April 23, 2013 | [–]

Many years ago, I used BT to distribute multi-GB files across some clusters.

Anecdotally, it worked great! Didn't need to do it again though, so I never cleaned up or documented the process.

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