lg/murder
Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library (NOTE: project no longer maintained) observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases archived no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 6068
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 3529
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
2514 stars · 258 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Murder is a Ruby-based deploy tool from Twitter that uses BitTorrent (via BitTornado) to distribute files to hundreds or tens of thousands of servers at scale. It integrates with Capistrano as a deploy strategy, using a tracker, seeder, and peer swarm model.
Use cases
- deploy files to thousands of servers quickly
- distribute large builds across a server fleet without a centralized bottleneck
- use bittorrent for production server deploys
- integrate peer-to-peer file distribution into capistrano deploys
- scale code deployment to massive server fleets
When to choose
- you need to push large files to hundreds or thousands of servers faster than a centralized mirror allows
- you already use Capistrano and want a peer-to-peer deploy strategy
- your network can handle peer-to-peer traffic between servers
When to avoid
- you need a maintained, supported tool - the project is explicitly unmaintained since ~2012
- you have only a handful of servers where simple scp/rsync suffices
- you need trackerless (DHT) distribution or modern security guarantees
Facets
cli-tool · maturity abandoned
deployment p2p file-system developer-tools infrastructure-as-code microservices ruby python cli bittorrent capistrano large-scale-deploys bittornado file-distribution devops automation linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/lg/murder · fetched 2026-08-28 · 5722fadfe83e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| lg/murder | main | 10 |
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