2018 Networking @Scale recap

This post details the 2018 Networking @Scale conference, highlighting discussions on high-speed optical networking, zero-touch provisioning with Vending Machine, ML-driven network resilience modeling, at-scale optical network management, IPv6 adoption data, the HyperPlane system for network load balancing, Edge Fabric for egress traffic management, and the open-sourcing of Katran, a scalable L4 load balancer utilizing XDP and eBPF. It also touches on the application perspective of networking from Blizzard.