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This week on BSDNow! We’ve got Netflix + FreeBSD news to discuss, always a crowd pleaser, that plus EuroBSDCon is just around the corner. Stick around for your place This episode was brought to you by Headlines Protecting Netflix Viewing Privacy at Scale, with FreeBSD (http://techblog.netflix.com/search/label/FreeBSD) This blog post from Netflix tells the story of how Netflix developed in-kernel TLS to speed up delivery of video via HTTPS Since the beginning of the Open Connect program we have significantly increased the efficiency of our OCAs - from delivering 8 Gbps of throughput from a single server in 2012 to over 90 Gbps from a single server in 2016. We contribute to this effort on the software side by optimizing every aspect of the software for our unique use case - in particular, focusing on the open source FreeBSD operating system and the NGINX web server that run on the OCAs. In the modern internet world, we have to focus not only on efficiency, but also security. There are many state-of-the-art sec