1/ @bitfinex infrastructure thread
Till Jan 2018 Bitfinex was using cloud hosting providers (AWS) as main site for the platform.
We soon figure out that was almost impossible to scale a CEX on cloud.
Here is the train of thoughts that we had in the mighty infrastructure team.
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6/ Path to metal


Our infra team has outstanding experience in secure, god wrath resistant, deployments, so we discussed a lot about pros and cons.
Here are the 2 cons summarized:
- hardware decay
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7/ Benefit (1): - the entire infra behavior is predictable - RAID enabled historical sharded data-warehouses kick asses - KYD, KYM and KYC
: Know Your Disk, Know your Mem and Know Your CPU
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8/ Benefit (2): - reliable UDP multicast - bare-metal Linux installs - you're the only one using your CPU (see spectre-like attacks) - colocation services offering
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Finally somebody with clout is telling everyone what cloud providers never mention. This does however beg the question, "does blockchain have the same issues?"
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