Facebook relies on its network as an integral part of its overall infrastructure, and is continually innovating in order to provide high performance standards amidst continual growth. As of the third quarter of 2017, Facebook had 2.07 billion monthly active
Juniper Networks, a Sunnyvale, California-based IT networking company, is making strides with its self-driving network with its recent announcement of Juniper Bots, a series of new applications that simplify network operations by translating intent into automated workflows. On its website,
New developments in routing usually require the careful extension of an existing protocol or the creation of new overlay extensions. Most protocols were originally designed based on now outdated and constrained software and hardware environment assumptions. To continue to deliver
This entry in our video series on distributed computing will summarize how Facebook has scaled their memcache to support a massive, globally distributed read load of a billion reads per second. Rajesh Nishtala, a member of the team that developed
As part of our ongoing series of videos that highlight challenges in distributed computing, we’d like to summarize the data points from Patrick Shuff, an Production Engineer on Facebook’s Traffic Team, on how they scale their load balancing infrastructure to
Of the 4 million+ websites that use CloudFlare, nearly all (98.01%) use IPv6. This has been a long time coming, since IPv6 first debuted commercially a decade ago in 2006 as the 2.0 version of IPv4. In order to move
Research into sequence predictions using neural networks holds the key to major advances in speech recognition, machine translation, and language modeling. However, building and training such models is computationally taxing and very expensive. For instance, recent advances in language modeling
Last year, Facebook rolled out ‘Live for Facebook Mentions’, a feature that allows public figures to broadcast live video to their legions of Facebook fans via its internal CDN. The move, while popular, brought with it a host of vexing
Aryaka Grows 150% in Q2 2016 Aryaka, the global SD-WAN solutions provider, has announced its stunning fourth consecutive quarter of growth. In Q2 of FY 2016, Aryaka is reporting that it has grown over 150% year-over-year compared to Q2 of
Comcast Embraces Netflix in Home Cable Set-Top Box Bowing to the might and popularity of Netflix, Comcast has made an extraordinary concession and agreed to allow its customers to view Netflix through its X1 home cable box. The new cable
Last week, Microsoft and Facebook announced they’re building a 4,000 mile transatlantic cable from Virginia Beach to Bilboa Spain. The venture is called MAREA and it will be operated by Telxius, a Telefonica infrastructure subsidiary. The undersea cable is billed
Is DIY An Emerging Trend Is the Do-it-Yourself model the next big trend, a game changer and disruptor of legacy business models? Or is it a blip on the radar and anomaly. Before we answer, lets agree that DIY is
Facebook Seeks to Expand Global Wireless Connectivity, Unveils Terragraph and Project ARIES Facebook recently unveiled crucial elements of its mission to extend high-speed wireless connectivity to urban areas as well as wireless connectivity to the vast tracts of the globe
Netflix Deploys Arista’s 115Tbps Switch Arista, provider of Netflix’s switching and routing platform, has announced the introduction of their 7500R Series switch. The 7500R Series is specialized for cloud service providers and offers a fabric that can provide speeds up
M=Market Cap and S=2015 revenues In the early 1900’s, the business pioneers that changed the world were Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt and John D. Rockefeller. In the early 2000’s, their equivalent is The Mighty GAFAN+M Clan,
