Networking @Scale 2019 recap
Sep 25, 2019Sanjay Sane, Jason Wilson, Omar Baldonado

Summary
This post summarizes the Networking @Scale 2019 conference, highlighting discussions on reliable networking at scale. Key contributions include presentations on: secure reliability in infrastructure, design principles for network availability, Facebook's BGP++ deployment and outages, Microsoft's Open Network Emulator (ONE) for preventing network changes from becoming outages, Cloudflare's learnings from bootstrapping 1.1.1.1, operational challenges and solutions for Facebook's Express Backbone (EBB) SD-WAN, Netflix's client-side network measurement system (Probnik), Facebook's infrastructure for enforcing encryption at scale using BPF programs and Transparent TLS (TTLS), and AWS's SAFE protocol for incident response and recovery.