Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance

Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure.
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Running Border Gateway Protocol in large-scale data centers

A first-of-its-kind study that details the scalable design, software implementation, and operations of Facebook’s data center routing design, based on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
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FioSynth: A representative I/O benchmark and data visualizer for data center workloads

FioSynth is a benchmark tool used to automate the execution of storage workload suites and to parse results.
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Building a more accurate time service at Facebook scale

As Facebook’s infrastructure has grown, time precision in our systems has become more and more important.
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