Building a Billion User Load Balancer

Discover how Facebook scales its load balancing infrastructure to support over 1.3 billion users in this 35-minute conference talk from SREcon15. Explore the technologies and methods used for global routing and traffic balancing, including DNS load balancing and a multi-protocol software load balancer. Learn about the traffic team's systems for managing site traffic, improving user performance, capacity management, and increasing reliability. Gain insights into dynamic requests, L4/L7 edge POPs, DNS cartography, monitoring, and open-source initiatives that contribute to Facebook's massive-scale load balancing solution.

Introduction
Agenda
Overview
Dynamic Requests
L4 L7
Edge POPs
DNS cartographer
Monitoring
Open Source