Engineering at Meta

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s world, where more and more data center infrastructure is being devoted to supporting new and emerging AI technologies, open hardware takes on an important role in assisting with disaggregation. Those ideas have made Meta’s data centers among the most sustainable and efficient in the world.

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Network Networking Data Centers Port 117

CloudFaire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Aggregation : MPTCP can aggregate the bandwidth of many network interfaces. For example, in a data center scenario, it's common to use interface bonding. A single flow can make use of just one physical interface. Typically, the server allows the client to reuse the server IP/port address.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

On a network, configurations are constantly changing. Unfortunately, configuration change accidents can happen that bring down parts of the network. Interface dropping packets. Interface issues caused by misconfigurations, errors, or queue limits lead to network traffic failing to reach its destination.

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How Funky

JULY 16, 2024

Intel has developed and sold classic Ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) for a long time, but many might not be as familiar with their product offerings in the SmartNIC and more advanced NIC categories. Ed In a spirit of fairness (and also because it is legally required by the FTC), I am posting this Disclosure Statement.

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Ethernet Server Network Interface Engineering 52

Kentik

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

You may still use monitoring appliances in your private/on-prem data centers, but how will you see the other side of the world (your footprints in public clouds)? With VPC Flow Logs, AWS enables the ability to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in a VPC.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

To quote: “Today’s typical NPMD vendors have their solutions geared toward traditional data center and branch office architecture, with the centralized hosting of applications.”. You’d put a few others — I emphasize “few” because these appliances were and are not cheap — at other major choke points in and out of the network.

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