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This is more like Facebook's use of Chihaya torrent tracker within Tupperware.

For very large web companies like this, when they push a new app update, the container needs to be distributed to hundreds of thousands of internal servers. Using P2P technology is just common sense to reduce load on the central artefact repository.



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