Olivier Cochard
ocochard.bsky.social
Olivier Cochard
@ocochard.bsky.social
Senior software engineer in test at Netflix, founder of FreeNAS and BSD Router Project, FreeBSD ports committer.
Time to replace my 13 years old NAS (HP Proliant MicroServer N40L). I chose an Aoostar WRT MAX. Let’s bench its 10G ports first… wow, now I have a great #FreeBSD NAS and firewall 😍 (consuming 43W while writing on zpool with 5 SATA 3.5" disks)
August 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by Olivier Cochard
Je recommande la lecture de cet article de blog sur la mono culture informatique. Car je partage ce point de vu.

virtualize.sh/blog/please-...
Please stop planting only corn
A blog post in defense of digital biodiversity
virtualize.sh
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Reposted by Olivier Cochard
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies thelibre.news/foss-infrast... Please share for awareness, reach and to public shame Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Perplexity and other such AI companies. It is madness out there.
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.
thelibre.news
March 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Underestimated #FreeBSD feature:  utilities with libxo(3) support (man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?...)
October 13, 2024 at 12:29 PM
How AWS Graviton compares to my local Ampere and AMD Epyc build machines ? Use case is building #FreeBSD here.
September 26, 2024 at 7:43 AM
100G/s CDN server consuming only 100W of power: "For the energy required by one (incandescent) light bulb, we can supply 20 to 30 thousand video customers."
Cf Drew Gallatin’s "Why We Run #FreeBSD current at #Netflix" presentation at OpenFest Bulgaria: youtu.be/q4TZxj-Dq7s
Why We Run FreeBSD current at Netflix – Drew Gallatin
We run FreeBSD-current on our CDN at Netflix. By running FreeBSD-current, we can find and fix bugs far more effectively than by running an older FreeBSD-stab...
youtu.be
April 21, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Reposted by Olivier Cochard
Chose promise, chose due. Le DevOps : d’une idée géniale à Kubernetes : chronique d’un effondrement ? www.christophe-casalegno.com/devops-dune-...
Le DevOps : d’une idée géniale à Kubernetes : chronique d’un effondrement ? | Christophe Casa...
www.christophe-casalegno.com
December 14, 2023 at 9:00 PM