Facebook

  • Reading Group. Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale

    ·

    Placeholder Icon

    Our 82nd reading group paper was “Running BGP in Data Centers at Scale.” This paper describes how Facebook adopted the BGP protocol, normally used at the Internet-scale, to provide routing capabilities at their datacenters. They are not the first to run BGP in the data center, but the paper is interesting nevertheless at giving some…

    Read More

  • Gorilla – Facebook’s Cache for Time Series Data

    ·

    Placeholder Icon

    Facebook operates a huge infrastructure that needs to be constantly monitored for performance and stability. Such monitoring collects huge amounts of data that must be easily accessible to various diagnosis and anomaly detection tools in order to quickly identify and react to possible issues. Many of such parameters can be represented as real-valued time series.…

    Read More