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lovinglinux
February 10th, 2010, 01:14 PM
Interesting concept.

http://torrentfreak.com/twitter-uses-bittorrent-for-server-deployment-100210/


“The distributed nature of BitTorrent means an operation that once took many dozens of minutes, now happens in less than a dozen seconds. These efficiencies will reduce maintenance windows, site downtime and exposure to security vulnerabilities,” Klinker added.

Grenage
February 10th, 2010, 01:17 PM
What a great codename - murder. Bitorrent is a great technology, but I am surprised that there aren't other techniques more suited the the task.

gsmanners
February 10th, 2010, 09:16 PM
A "Murder" is normally used to refer to a flock of crows, which in this case applies to a bunch of servers doing something.

http://github.com/lg/murder

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds