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Running BGP in Facebook's Data Centers at Scale (usenix.org)
2 points by Scaevolus on Oct 4, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Context: Facebook's global outage today stems from a bad global BGP update that cut connectivity to every datacenter. This paper documents the automation underlying it and makes the potentials for a global outage from a buggy config push more obvious.




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