# History of What.CD's Bittorrent Tracker Software

DevFeed: [History of What.CD's Bittorrent Tracker Software](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/history-of-what-cd-s-bittorrent-tracker-software-31813.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.metachris.dev/2010/10/history-of-what-cds-bittorrent-tracker-software/>)

Author: Chris Hager

Published: 2010-10-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Chris Hager](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chris-hager.md>)

Topics: [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [C](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [c](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [development-process](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development-process.md>), [history](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/history.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

The article highlights a post about the development of What.CD's private torrent tracker software, including multiple attempts to build a highly scalable tracker from scratch in C and the developers' candid account of their process.

## Source excerpt

An interesting post about the private torrent tracker what.cd surfaced on HN today, portraying the attempts and final success of creating a highly scalable torrent tracker software. It's an interesting read in particular because of the honesty of their development process and the description of multiple attempts to write a tracker from scratch in C. Ocelot: The story of a torrent tracker