Networking @Scale 2017 Recap

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This post recaps the third annual Networking @Scale conference, highlighting technical talks from various companies including Facebook, Alibaba, Amazon, Dropbox, Equinix, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix. Specific technical contributions from Facebook include details on Express Backbone (a private SD-WAN long-haul network for data center interconnection), Robotron (a scalable system for automating and scaling the edge network), Facebook CDN innovations (cache priming for live video, ML-based predictive cache priming), Zero Protocol and TLS 1.3 deployment efforts and challenges, and internet-scale virtual networking using IPv6 ILA. Other companies shared insights on exabyte-scale storage networks, high-performance packet processing, global content delivery logistics, certificate transparency, IPv6 delivery on AWS VPC, IPv6-only corporate networks, high-altitude platforms for rural backhaul, and custom hardware/network design.