Engineering at Meta

MARCH 12, 2024

In the graph below, AllGather collective performance is shown (as normalized bandwidth on a 0-100 scale) when a large number of GPUs are communicating with each other at message sizes where roofline performance is expected. This helped push our large clusters to achieve great and expected performance just as our small clusters.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

spine-leaf topologies provide excessive-bandwidth, low-latency, non-blocking server-to-server connectivity. Adding spine switches increases fabric bandwidth. Adding leaf switches increases end point bandwidth. Let's look at the top nine benefits and characteristics of ACI as compared to traditional networks.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

This feature in networks predicts and stabilizes the topology. Low Overhead : Static routes do not consume bandwidth for routing updates or require additional CPU resources to compute paths. Disadvantages: Manual updates required for topology changes, not scalable for large networks, and risk of misconfiguration.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If you’re working from home, could it be possible that you’re competing with other local devices for that precious, limited bandwidth? For example, after thorough review of the traceroute and the BGP topology, a peering connection at the local IX could resolve the issue. Check your local network.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 14, 2021

New Topology View and a New Backend The top-level topology view has been redesigned to accommodate deployments of thousands of sites and tens of thousands of users. We enhanced security reporting with an all-new threats dashboard and opened up application performance with another new dashboard.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

Some of its limitations includes: Cost: MPLS connections are expensive and have hard caps on available bandwidth. If an organizations bandwidth needs exceed the current hardware capacity, new or additional hardware is required, and this can be a slow and expensive process.

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Kentik

AUGUST 31, 2021

The diagram below illustrates the topology of the internet of Afghanistan based on BGP data from 10 years ago. Six ASNs represented its domestic internet with international bandwidth coming from either satellite providers or its neighboring countries, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The problem is that as companies adopt cloud-based services, deploy more bandwidth-intensive applications, and connect an increasing number of devices and remote locations, business requirements change and new technical challenges arise. However, it comes with performance limitations and other challenges.

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Kentik

AUGUST 30, 2021

Why is my bandwidth bill so high? Commonly cited problems are a loss of visibility or understanding of the topology, loss of control over network policies (because developers can now create network constructs on their own), and new networking tools from the cloud providers that are often siloed and shallow in features.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

However, in order to operate a reliable stretch cluster, datacenters must be relatively close to each other and have a very stable, low latency, and high-bandwidth connection among the DCs. datacenter topology. This changes with the preview release of Confluent Platform 5.4, This is sometimes referred to as a 2.5

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

That includes adding in high-value data such as threat feed and threat modeling, routing, topology, and other important networking information to model answers to difficult questions. Flow can also be used to understand consumption of bandwidth in a more granular manner.

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Kentik

JANUARY 28, 2021

Why is my bandwidth bill so high? What users and applications are consuming my network bandwidth? The (typically static) configuration data representing the operating intent for all configurable network elements such as addresses, ID’s, ACLs, topology info, location data, even device details such as hardware and software versions.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

That includes adding in high-value data such as threat feed and threat modeling, routing, topology, and other important networking information to model answers to difficult questions. Flow can also be used to understand consumption of bandwidth in a more granular manner.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Traditionally, enterprises configure their WAN in a classic hub-and-spoke topology, where users in sites access resources in headquarters or a datacenter. Bandwidth-intensive traffic, bound for the Internet and cloud, are backhauled across the MPLS WAN.

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Kentik

MARCH 15, 2023

Cyberthreat strategies have evolved in step with modern cloud networks, often using cheap, virtualized cloud resources to exploit the threat surface topology I briefly described above. These attacks aim to overwhelm a service’s bandwidth capabilities with prohibitively high traffic volumes. Protocol-based.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Youve been told to cut costs Its no secret that MPLS circuits cost a fortune often 3-4x the price of MPLS alternatives (like SD-WAN,) for only a fraction of the bandwidth. Get crystal clear on your WAN challenges: Do any of these challenges sound familiar? But the bottom line isnt the only factor to take into consideration.

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Kentik

MARCH 26, 2018

To quickly resolve problems in either scenario, IT managers need new tools that can gain visibility into the end-to-end topology and various paths that traffic flows are traversing from the Internet breakout connection into multiple cloud provider networks.

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Kentik

MAY 31, 2023

Under this model, network topology is highly variable, creating a complexity that can mask root causes and make proactive availability configurations a highly brittle point of the network. Replication, analysis, and data transfer all present opportunities for security threats, data integrity loss, and intense bandwidth and memory consumption.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The mechanisms described above — such as the role placement algorithm — can only be effective when all of the participating entities are in agreement on the topology of the cluster together with the status and health of each node. For example, there is a mechanism to manage the relocation of roles when the topology changes.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

Using the old approach to support the new needs results in expensive global connectivity, complex topologies and widely dispersed point products that are difficult to maintain and secure. SD-WANs reduce bandwidth costs by leveraging inexpensive services, such as Internet broadband, whenever possible. What are the Benefits of SD-WANs?

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Note that enterprise topologies that have all sites close or all on a single access carrier may not have this exposure to the core Internet. However, in the event of network issues or congestion, mechanisms to allocate the available reduced bandwidth for optimal business value are critical. One area is identity.

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Vedcraft

JUNE 16, 2024

Team Topologies approach to organizing software engineering teams has emerged as a great reference for building an effective platform engineering team. Click here to see the consolidated list of tools & technologies.

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 16, 2023

MySQL Raft replication topologies A Raft ring would consist of several MySQL instances (four in the diagram) in different regions. Once in a while, automation could also change the regional placement of MySQL topology. The communication round-trip time (RTT) between these regions would range from 10 to 100 milliseconds.

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