Networking @Scale 2017 Recap

This post recaps the third Networking @Scale conference, highlighting technical talks on network engineering, services, IPv6, and hardware innovations. Specific contributions include details on Facebook's Express Backbone (SD-WAN long-haul network), automation and scaling of edge networks with Robotron, Alibaba's high-performance packet processing platform, Netflix's challenges in delivering terabits of content globally, Facebook's work on Zero Protocol and TLS 1.3 for low-latency transport security, CDN innovations for cache priming, certificate transparency efforts, internet-scale virtual networking using IPv6 ILA, IPv6 delivery on Amazon VPC, Microsoft's path to an IPv6-only corporate network, high-altitude platforms for rural backhaul, Equinix's automation for data center interconnection, and Facebook's custom hardware and network design.