Where I work, we have a few thousand servers and about 95% are linux. I have converted almost all of my office guys to linux or Mac minis for desktops.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote: > > well, > take a look at craigslist parent company: Ebay. Fully 35% of their operation > is Linux Centric. Mostly, its the 90,000 or so email and backend servers > running in virtual machines (like VMware). THey also run windows on some > desktops as well as an active directory infrastructure. However, one of their > biggest usage bases inside the company are all of the Macbook pros they use. > THere is a tiny sliver of OpenBSD border routers and load balancers as well. > BTW, this information comes from a friend that works as a Sr. Systems Admin > in the Infrastructure development Dept. > > -eric > >> On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Amy Nielsen wrote: >> >> Once again I like learning new things regarding open source, I had no idea >> Craigslist did any of this. I am realizing how big and widespread Linux and >> Open Source has become, it is exciting! >> >> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: >> I was perusing craigslist and noticed a link that said 'open source'. Being >> the ever-curious lad of 44 I clicked the link and wish to share what I found: >> >> <quote> >> >> craigslist is a big believer in open source software, and relies heavily on >> Linux, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Sphinx, Redis, Haraka, and many others. >> >> craigslist (CL) has released the following open source projects: >> >> CL blob service - a simple HTTP-based, multi-master storage service designed >> for scale-out and multi-datacenter deployments: >> >> • multi-master architecture with no single point of failure >> • scales well for both read and write intensive workloads >> • tracks TTLs for automatic expiration and purging of blobs >> • designed for both local and multiple data center replication >> • pluggable index and storage interface (uses SQLite for index and >> filesystem for storage by default) >> CL image service - large scale image resizing and processing HTTP service: >> >> • flexible API to choose any quality, size, and center-cropping >> • automatically handles orientation operations from EXIF data >> • stores resized images in the blob service (could use other stores) >> memcache cluster proxy (MCP) - a high-performance modular clustering HTTP >> reverse proxy: >> >> • high-performance event-driven daemon >> • flexible configuration, easily extensible framework >> • uses standard memcached memory store for caching >> • supports PCRE and rule-based traffic routing by URL, headers, and more >> • tracks health of origin servers, routes around failures >> • provides configurable URL redirects, rewrites, and real-time header >> transformations >> In addition, craigslist contributes code to the following open source >> projects: >> >> Haraka: >> >> • added the smtp_client code that helps support pooled connections for >> proxy queues >> • rewrote all of the smtp_proxy and smtp_forward code >> • major contributions to the test suite >> • plugin that does strict DNS checking, DNS access control lists >> • contributions to bannering support >> • logging infrastructure changes for more robust logging >> • plugins for aliases, access lists, etc. >> Redis: >> >> • perl-AnyEvent-Redis-Federated: an event-based redis client that >> implements client-side sharding in Perl >> • redis_util: s collection of utilities for node-redis >> • provided support for included config files >> Sphinx: >> >> • provided the original persistent connections implementation >> • craigslist sponsors useful sphinx feature developments, such as the >> TRUNCATE INDEX command for real-time sphinx >> The craigslist Charitable Fund supports open source nonprofit organizations >> including: >> >> • Apache Software Foundation >> • Free Software Foundation >> • Gnome Foundation >> • Mozilla Foundation >> • Open Source Initiative >> • OpenStreetMap.us >> • Perl Foundation >> • PostgreSQL >> • Python Software Foundation >> • Software in the Public Interest >> </quote> >> >> Isn't that cool! >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> Amy Nielsen >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
