Introduction to Maglev Maglev is Google’s custom network load balancer, which is used within all its data centers and operates at the distributed packet-level. Google is of course a significant source of global Internet traffic, which provides hundreds of user-facing
Introduction to Envoy Envoy is an open source L7 edge and service proxy. It was developed as a high performance C++ distributed proxy intended for standalone services and applications, in addition to large microservices. The Envoy code was built to
Facebook is open sourcing Katran, the innovative load balancer that powers its platform and prevents it from crashing and burning. Katran offers a software-based approach to load balancing in combination with a reengineered forwarding plane that leverages two recent innovations
