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wolfgang42 on March 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How we deploy faster with warm Docker containers

It does make sense to avoid having servers that saturate their link with a zillion identical downloads on every deploy; but I wonder why they went for BitTorrent, rather than using multicast the way e.g. Windows enterprise installs do it.

adql on March 8, 2023 [–]

Coz you need working multicast across entire network or server-per-datacenter to multicast (and data still needs to get to that server).

It's much simpler to just point a server to torrent tracker and let them exchange stuff between themselves

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