Facebook wrote the load-balancing software, Katran, because existing load balancers can't handle the size of the social media giant's systems.

The Aqua Connect Load Balancer for Linux was developed in order to reduce the cost of deployment by using more affordable Linux hardware while also adding greater scalability and bandwidth throughput.

The Maglev software-defined load balancer, which runs on commodity Linux servers, has been critical to Google Cloud Platform for eight years, company says.

The social network has previously shared a lot of design principles and open-sourced network switch hardware and software through the Open Compute Project, which it founded in 2011. The latest item to ...

Facebook has shared some more on the tools it uses to manage the huge networks in its data centers. This time, it has open-sourced the code for its Katran load balancer, and described the principles ...

HAProxy, the world’s fastest and most widely used software load balancer, fills the role as an API gateway extremely well. In addition to routing API calls to the proper backend servers, it also ...

Facebook’s latest tool is called Katran, which is a software-based load balancing tool it said has made its backend networking infrastructure far more reliable and scalable.