Drew Gallatin of Netflix presented at the recent EuroBSDcon 2019 conference in Norway on the company’s network stack optimizations to FreeBSD. Netflix was working on being able to deliver 200Gb/s network performance for video streaming out of Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC servers, to which they are now at 190Gb/s+ and in the process that doubled the potential of EPYC Naples/Rome servers and also very hefty upgrades too for Intel…
Source: Phoronix – Netflix Optimized FreeBSD’s Network Stack More Than Doubled AMD EPYC Performance