UKNOF is being closed down during 2024, and this site is now only active as an archive of previous events and presentations.

16–17 Sept 2015
Holiday Inn Royal Victoria - Sheffield
Europe/London timezone

How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Network

17 Sept 2015, 10:00
20m
Holiday Inn Royal Victoria - Sheffield

Holiday Inn Royal Victoria - Sheffield

Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, S4 7YE
Main Session

Speaker

Mr David Rothera (Facebook)

Description

Want to learn how Facebook operates their global network to support more than 1.3 billion users? We will be describing the technologies and methods we use to manage Facebook's production network. The neteng org at Facebook has built/leverage several systems for managing and operating the production network, including an audit framework, alarms daemons, drainers, and an automatic remediation engine. This talk will focus on these technologies and how they have helped improve user experience, administer complexity, automate day-to-day operations, mitigate impact, and increase reliability.

Summary

A high level overview on some of the problems and some of the lessons learned onhow we deal with operating a large scale network.

Primary authors

Mr David Rothera (Facebook) Mr Jose Leitao (Facebook)

Presentation materials