diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1579b9d..9e12f05 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -23,6 +23,24 @@ Differentiating features include: [YAML]: http://yaml.org [Prometheus]: http://prometheus.io +## Production Use + +### Facebook + +[Facebook] uses BitTorrent in order to speed up large deployments. +In order to optimize the flow of traffic within their datacenters, Chihaya is configured to prefer peers within the same subnet. +This keeps the vast majority of traffic within the same rack and more importantly off the backbone between datacenters. + +[Facebook]: https://facebook.com + +### CoreOS + +[Quay] is a container registry that offers the ability to download containers via BitTorrent in order to speed up large deployments or deployments geographically far away. +Announce URLs from Quay's torrent files contain a [JWT] in order to allow Chihaya to verify that an infohash was approved by the registry. + +[Quay]: https://quay.io +[JWT]: https://jwt.io + ## Getting Started In order to compile the project, the latest stable version of Go and a working Go environment are required.