# lg/murder

Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library (NOTE: project no longer maintained)

Repository: https://github.com/lg/murder
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lg-murder
Homepage: http://twitter.com
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-01-04T02:33:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6068, "days_push": 3529, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2514, forks 258 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:57.547361+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: deployment, p2p, file-system, developer-tools
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, microservices
- platform: ruby, python, cli
- tags: bittorrent, capistrano, large-scale-deploys, bittornado, file-distribution, devops, automation, linux

## Member repositories
- lg/murder (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.547361+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:26:13.842183+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lg/murder (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:57.547361+00:00, sha 5722fadfe83e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.