Hyperscalers like Alibaba, Amazon, ByteDance, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Tencent have developed planetary-scale infrastructure to deliver cloud services. While most practitioners may not directly build such infrastructure, it’s beneficial to learn about it. Many widely used technologies, like virtual memory and Kubernetes, originated in advanced environments like hyperscale infrastructure. This article provides an overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure and its key insights, emphasizing Meta’s engineering culture, including moving fast, technology openness, research in production, and shared infrastructure practices. Meta boosts developer productivity with continuous deployment and serverless functions, reducing hardware costs through hardware-software co-design.
https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/