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As a continuation of the 2020 Networking request for proposals (RFP), Facebook launched the 2021 Networking RFP with a focus...

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

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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...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented changes in the way people interact with each other, which as a consequence has increased pressure on the Internet. In this paper we provide a perspective of the scale of Internet traffic growth and how well the Internet coped with the increased demand as seen from Facebook’s edge network.

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...