[HN Gopher] How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale ___________________________________________________________________ How Meta patches Linux at hyperscale Author : elorant Score : 22 points Date : 2023-12-02 20:32 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (thenewstack.io) (TXT) w3m dump (thenewstack.io) | fragmede wrote: | Ksplice is the original live patching technology that got bought | by Oracle and was later extended to user space programs while I | worked there. It's a really neat technology that isn't made | obsolete by the move to cloud, since you still don't want to have | to restart the whole fleet at scale. | civilitty wrote: | Is MongoDB hyperscale [1]? | | [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs | ravenstine wrote: | Never heard of this "hyperscale" concept before. How is this any | different from... scaling? | mc32 wrote: | Supermarkets and super cars aren't enough. We need hypermarkets | and hyper cars to be current. So now we can't just scale, I | guess that's for trucks, so to be current you need hyperscale. | wmf wrote: | In general every order of magnitude brings new challenges. | Companies running over a million servers have a lot of problems | that smaller ones don't. Also they just have more room to | amortize R&D. | revskill wrote: | Universe scale i guess. | tester756 wrote: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperscale_computing ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-02 23:00 UTC)