Throughput autoscaling: Dynamic sizing for Facebookcom
Facebook’s web tier is one of the main services that handle HTTP requests from people using our services each time they interact with Facebook. It is a massive global service distributed across multiple data centers throughout the world. Since we have people from all over the world using our services, the load on the web […] Read More… The post Throughput autoscaling: Dynamic sizing for Facebo
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Date: 2020-09-14
URL: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/09/14/networking-traffic/throughput-autoscaling/
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