Research

On October 12, Meta hosted its first in-person Networking and Communications Faculty Summit since 2019.

Is a PhD absolutely required to become a researcher in industry? Many people would say yes. However, when we asked this question to YuLing Chen, who’s a production engineer and...

Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support...

This paper presents Facebook’s risk-driven backbone management strategy to ensure high service performance throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this paper, we present Facebook’s BGP-based data center routing design and how it marries data center’s stringent requirements with BGP’s functionality. We present the design’s significant artifacts, including the BGP Autonomous System Number (ASN) allocation, route summarization, and our sophisticated BGP policy set.

Academics come to work at Facebook at various stages of their career. Some join right after graduating; others join after...

In this paper, we leverage different components of the end-to-end networking infrastructure to prevent or mask any disruptions in face of releases. Zero Downtime Release is a collection of mechanisms used at Facebook to shield the end-users from any disruptions, preserve the cluster capacity and robustness of the infrastructure when updates are released globally.

Networking is fundamental to the large-scale, distributed systems that power the family of Facebook applications that are used by billions...