Engineering at Meta

JUNE 12, 2024

Meta is currently operating many data centers with GPU training clusters across the world. Our data centers are the backbone of our operations, meticulously designed to support the scaling demands of compute and storage. This transition has not been without its challenges.

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Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Within these pillars, AI cluster performance can be influenced by multiple factors, including model parameters, workload distribution, job scheduler logic, topology, and hardware specs. We’re also investigating a framework to provide design insights for different topology/routing designs given a set of known models.

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Kentik

AUGUST 20, 2020

They have been left with gaping holes in visibility, preventing them from holistically understanding topology state, traffic flows, network performance and device health status. Drill into data center devices to understand how your applications flow through your data center fabric.

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Youll want to first determine which location to deploy to, such as West US or Central US, since this will impact your latency between Microsofts Data centers and your physical sites or remote users. The next step is to determine your overall design and topology.

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Kentik

JULY 1, 2019

These cloud technologies also are not handled by the legacy network monitoring tools as those legacy tools typically do not monitor traffic—or if they do, they cannot scale to today’s new data volumes, nor are they path-aware. And none of them understand application topology, especially when running in cloud-native environments.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Next generation SDN solution and is designed for data centers spine-leaf architecture for the policy-driven solution. Cisco ACI provides application agility and data center automation with simplified operations. What is Cisco ACI ? Continue Reading.

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CATO Networks

MAY 28, 2017

During the session, attendees can expect to better understand: the challenges involved in securing and building a hybrid data center how to interconnect all critical elements, including physical locations and mobile users the tools and capabilities available for building a secure, hybrid cloud datacenter the pros and cons of the various technologies (..)

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

Most organizations have a cloud strategy, this could augment data centers or replace them entirely, but regardless of the organizational goals, the network is increasingly important when cloud is being adopted. Flow incorporates a sampling configuration, which allows a specific percentage of conversations to export from the device.

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Scott's Weblog

JUNE 28, 2024

I’m back with another set of links to articles on various data center- and IT-related topics. On the CNCF blog, William Morgan of Buoyant puts pen to page to discuss concerns with Kubernetes’ Topology Aware Routing (TAR) functionality. Welcome to Technology Short Take #179!

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2020

Most organizations have a cloud strategy, this could augment data centers or replace them entirely, but regardless of the organizational goals, the network is increasingly important when cloud is being adopted. Flow incorporates a sampling configuration, which allows a specific percentage of conversations to export from the device.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

That means making sure the wide area network (WAN) that connects branch offices, data centers, cloud services and SaaS applications can handle the connectivity needs of digitally empowered global organizations. Particularly with SaaS, many business critical applications are no longer hosted in on-site data centers.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

This data is useful for Kentik’s automated capacity planning workflows and building topological maps (layer 2 and layer 3 connectivity). We can also turn services up without anyone needing to go to an office or data center. Kentik is the only SaaS platform to provide scalable visibility into any network.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 7, 2018

SDNs first were introduced in the data center with the goal of increasing network by separating the data plane from the control plane. 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.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

Network reliability engineers (NREs) The scale, transient nature of resources and topology, and extensive network boundaries make delivering on network reliability a complex and specialized task. Additionally, monitoring becomes critical for network optimizations by identifying areas where resources are under or overutilized.

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Kentik

JUNE 14, 2023

An engineer standing in front of a console today stares at the traffic moving from their on-prem data center up and out to a CASB, receiving DNS responses from a cloud-provided DNS service, and then on through an ephemeral microservices architecture in a public cloud. And this, of course, is just to reach the front end. Cloud to cloud.

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Kentik

APRIL 9, 2018

Ensuring application and network performance looms as a critical concern in environments where a new generation of IT software and computing infrastructure spans multiple geographically distributed data centers and a mix of public and private networks, including SD-WAN overlays. But in whose network?

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 22, 2023

The corporate WAN connects an organizations distributed branch locations, data center, cloud-based infrastructure, and remote workers. As the WAN expands to include SaaS applications and cloud data centers, managing this environment becomes more challenging. This reduces the cost and complexity of network management.

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Kentik

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Facebook uses Open/R to support its wide-area networks, data center fabric and wireless mesh topologies. Alibaba’s next-gen data center uses Cisco tech (SDxCentral). The newest Alibaba Cloud data center in Beijing uses Cisco technology.

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The Network DNA

JULY 5, 2024

Data center and service provider networks frequently employ EVPN to offer effective and scalable network connection. VXLAN EVPN Basic Topology EVPN Route Type The EVPN control plane advertises the following types of information: Ethernet auto-discovery (AD) routes are route type 1.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

New features include Quick Views to provide instant access to common reports, and a Network Map of the logical and physical topology with step-by-step workflows to drive the most common network operations tasks. tasks required to operate today’s complex networks, which span data center, WAN, LAN, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 27, 2022

Network Topology Mapping Network Topology Mapping 101: The Categories, Types, and Techniques What is Microsegmentation? How Network Microsegmentation Can Protect Data Centers ABAC ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control): A Complete Guide RBAC vs ABAC. Or maybe NGAC?

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NW Kings

JANUARY 7, 2025

This feature in networks predicts and stabilizes the topology. NOTE : Join our CCNP to CCIE Data Center Master’s Program today! The disadvantages of static routing are as follows- Manual updates required for changes in topology : If a network change occurs, administrators must manually update static configurations.

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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. However, using MPLS bandwidth to backhaul Internet data to a secure location is expensive and affects performance.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

datacenter topology. However, this architecture was only viable if data centers were very close to one another because of the cost to throughput, the operational overhead of dealing with replica placement, and the volume of cross-DC traffic the architecture creates. This is sometimes referred to as a 2.5

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CATO Networks

JUNE 24, 2015

Closer to the world of IT infrastructure, we are witnessing an arms race between first-mover Amazon Web Services and challengers Google, Microsoft and IBM to dominate the data center of the future. Network topology must be understood, and policies created to match it.

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Kentik

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The physical topology continues to expand with relentless traffic growth, and a constant stream of new technologies like SDN, Clos architectures, and cloud interconnects make it even harder to understand how services traverse the network between application infrastructure and users or customers. Let’s face it — today’s networks are complex.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 20, 2022

Employees constantly complain about performance While traditional hub-and-spoke networking topology comes with its advantages, when users backhaul to the data center they clog the network with bandwidth-heavy applications like VOIP and file transfer.

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Kentik

JANUARY 28, 2021

What is my performance to specific endpoints, between data centers or from on-prem to cloud? Configuration data. Questions you can answer with configuration data alone: Did I make an obvious mistake with a configuration change? What path is my traffic taking to reach a destination and what is the performance?

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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. Heys movement f rom Cloud to own data center. Click here to see the consolidated list of tools & technologies. Image Credit: FinOps Foundation licensed under CC BY 4.0

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DoorDash Engineering

JANUARY 16, 2024

Custom multi-cluster service discovery: Our custom service discovery solution, DoorDash data center Service Discovery, or DDSD, provides a custom DNS domain to support multi-cluster communication. Enable the topology-aware routing feature for internal infrastructure traffic using the Kubernetes network proxy kube-proxy.

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CATO Networks

MAY 24, 2021

Catos global PoPs are connected in a full-mesh topology to provide optimal global routing. Specific optimizations include: Shared Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) , where the Cato PoPs collocate in data centers directly connected to the IXP of the leading IaaS providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

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Cloudera Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Most Azure users use hub-spoke network topology. DNS servers are usually deployed in the hub virtual network or an on-prem data center instead of in the Cloudera VNET. Cloudera resources are created on the fly, which means wildcard rules may be declined by the security team.

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Kentik

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Addressing the visibility gaps left by legacy appliances in centralized data centers, Kentik NPM uses lightweight software agents to gather performance metrics from real traffic wherever application servers are distributed across the Internet. Is it the data center? Is it the network? Is it the WAN? Is it the Internet?

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Engineering at Meta

MAY 16, 2023

Background To allow for high availability, fault tolerance, and scaling reads, Meta’s MySQL datastore is a massively sharded, geo-replicated deployment with millions of shards, holding petabytes of data. The deployment includes thousands of machines running over several regions and data centers across multiple continents.

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