Production Engineering

We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve efficiency and utilization across our fleet. Using Strobelight, we’ve seen significant efficiency wins, including one that has resulted in an estimated 15,000 servers’ worth of annual capacity savings. Strobelight, Meta’s [...] Read More... The post Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Today’s rapidly evolving landscape of use cases that demand highly performant and efficient network infrastructure is placing new emphasis on how in-line amplifiers (ILAs) are designed and deployed. Meta’s ILA Evo effort seeks to reimagine how an ILA site could be deployed to improve speed and cost while making a step function improvement in power [...] Read More... The post ILA Evo: Meta’s journey to reimagine fiber optic in-line amplifier sites appeared first on Engineering at Meta.