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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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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Out of curiosity, what provider do you use for the bare metal?
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We rented our own cabinets in a datacenter and bought our own servers
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I've always been a fan of dedicated servers but the cost2efficiency equation usually doesn't make sense for the most part.. the latency and routing also adds another layer of problems to the issue which is why I switched to GC personally.. Anyway good job!
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