NGINX and Netflix Contribute New sendfile(2) to FreeBSD
Open source is the driving force for more and more innovation in technology and business, and open source is the new standard for application development, as described in our blog post, The Three Waves of Open Source Development. NGINX is one of the most significant open source projects, powering nearly half of the world’s busiest websites. We’re proud of the many significant contributions from our team, both at work and individually. Open source technology and contribution are core to our values as a company. Now NGINX has teamed up with our partner Netflix, another driving force in open source, to offer a new implementation of the sendfile(2) system call, for FreeBSD only, which further speeds up TCP data transfers. sendfile runs fast because it avoids copying file data into a buffer before it’s sent. The new version of sendfile further [ more… ]
