Open-sourcing Katran, a scalable network load balancer Katran creates a software-based solution to load balancing with a reengineered forwarding plane that takes advantage of recent innovations in kernel engineering. With billions of people around the globe using Facebook services, our infrastructure engineers have created a range of systems to optimize traffic and to enable fast, reliable access
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