Thanks Seph, I also wanted to follow up with the reasoning beyond porting to an alternate OS. I have been working on an HTTP/2 based stack for some time now and originally had plans to use SQLite…until FoundationDB was open sourced. Specs on ZFS and FreeBSD utilizing SQLite were very impressive and got my attention immediately. I have built this using the FreeBSD 11 kernel to encompass upstream features from Netflix and their contributions to sendfile(2) as well. NGINX collaborated on this as well to do some pretty cool things with async I/O. The GRPC gateway was recently completed to work alongside NGINX and so far I’ve gotten this to work inside this same FreeBSD environment. I tend to use the right tool for the job whether it’s Apple, Google, Microsoft, Linux, or BSD and in this case FoundationDB seems like a great technology to include in this system I have been planning for ~2 years now. It would be great to share this with the open source community at large to see what they think as well.
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