Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems. Google is known to fiercely guard its data center secrets ...

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Facebook has shared some more on the tools it uses to manage the huge networks in its data centers. This time, it has open-sourced the code for its Katran load balancer, and described the principles ...