What the research is: RAMP-TAO is a new protocol that improves the developer experience on TAO, Facebook’s online social graph store, by providing stronger transactional guarantees. It is the first protocol to provide transactional semantics over an eventually consistent massive-scale data store while still preserving the system’s overall reliability and performance. RAMP-TAO enables an intuitive… Continue reading RAMP-TAO: Layering atomic transactions on Facebook’s online graph store
Month: August 2021
Apricot subsea cable will boost internet capacity, speeds in the Asia-Pacific region
We are excited to announce our participation in the Apricot subsea cable system, together with leading regional and global partners. When completed, the project (which is still subject to regulatory approvals) will deliver much-needed internet capacity, redundancy, and reliability to expand connections in the Asia-Pacific region. The 12,000-kilometer-long cable will connect Japan, Taiwan, Guam, the… Continue reading Apricot subsea cable will boost internet capacity, speeds in the Asia-Pacific region
SRE Weekly Issue #283
View on sreweekly.com I’m on vacation enjoying the sunny beaches in Maine with my family, so I prepared this week’s issue in advance. No outages section, save for one big one I noticed due to direct personal experience. See you all next week! A message from our sponsor, StackHawk: StackHawk is now integrated with GitHub Code… Continue reading SRE Weekly Issue #283
Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance
Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, an important component of the modern timing infrastructure. To make this possible, we came up with the Time Card — a PCI Express (PCIe) card that can turn almost any commodity server into a time appliance. With the help of the OCP community, we… Continue reading Open-sourcing a more precise time appliance