Building a Billion User Load Balancer

Discover how Facebook scales its load balancing infrastructure to support over 1.3 billion users in this 45-minute LISA16 conference talk. Explore the technologies and methods used for global routing and traffic balancing, including DNS and software load balancers capable of handling multiple protocols. Learn about improving user performance, managing capacity, and increasing reliability through Facebook's Traffic team's innovative systems. Gain insights into traffic metrics, dynamic requests, protocols, round trip time, edge pops, and key considerations for building a robust load balancing infrastructure at scale.