Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

While deploying Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta, we’ve developed a simplified version of the protocol (Simple Precision Time Protocol – SPTP), that can offer the same level of clock synchronization as unicast PTPv2 more reliably and with fewer resources.

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Protocol Unicast Data Centers Server 130

ByteByteGo

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Unicast vs Broadcast vs Multicast vs Anycast How Does VISA Make Money? Create High-Level Design Break down the system into components such as client apps, servers, load balancers, databases, etc. Unicast vs Broadcast vs Multicast vs Anycast These are 4 network communication methods you must know. Focus on the data flow.

Unicast 211

Unicast Banking Protocol Network 211

Engineering at Meta

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Implementing Precision Time Protocol (PTP) at Meta allows us to synchronize the systems that drive our products and services down to nanosecond precision. The journey to PTP has been years long, as we’ve had to rethink how both the timekeeping hardware and software operate within our servers and data centers.

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Protocol Server Unicast Network 57