Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
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Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#2"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation"
-- says the world's biggest data aggregator.
The irony is amazing.
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#3"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation" -- says the world's biggest data aggregator. The irony is amazing.
The full sentence is even better. "We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation – of breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components so we can build new systems that are more flexible, more scalable, and more efficient" (at aggregating user data).
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#4"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation" -- says the world's biggest data aggregator. The irony is amazing.
They go on to define their terms: "breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components" -- very little to do with what we think of as "data aggregation."
So, I wouldn't exactly call it ironic. More... homophonic? Homophonically ironic?
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#5Regardless of what people think of facebook and their business, this is a pretty big deal. As a very large tech company, they have the time and talent to develop their own switches. If they are releasing the reference implementations, unlike google, this helps anyone else trying to build the next big web company. The more information the merrier.
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#6"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation" -- says the world's biggest data aggregator. The irony is amazing.
I don't know why you think this is ironic.
First of all, I don't know if FB is really the biggest data aggregator. Even if it was, what does data aggregation have to do with aggregation within the data center? Maybe you dislike Facebook the app or "the business model" or whatever, and that prevents you from thinking straight about the implications of this announcement.
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#7"We’re big believers in the value of disaggregation" -- says the world's biggest data aggregator. The irony is amazing.
They go on to define their terms: "breaking down traditional data center technologies into their core components" -- very little to do with what we think of as "data aggregation." So, I wouldn't exactly call it ironic. More... homophonic? Homophonically ironic?
Homophironic. You can TM that.
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#8Are ASICs gaining popularity or are they already broadly used?
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#9I work in a somewhat related team (Traffic/CDN) at Facebook, and I'm very excited about what this is going to allow us to do in future.
Current switches just don't support the deployment, monitoring, and configuration power we have for servers. While we've done a lot (probably close to the most than can be) to bring them somewhat close to par, Wedge should not only leapfrog to equality, but also use the same infrastructure - and gain whenever the server processes improve.
The opportunities opened by being able to quickly canary some new features (without doing a firmware upgrade before turning on and again after turning it off), have detailed logging and monitoring and reusing our existing tools for correlation and comparison, and to do some things we currently are forced to do on separate machines now are fairly large.
Re: Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network
#10Regardless of what people think of facebook and their business, this is a pretty big deal. As a very large tech company, they have the time and talent to develop their own switches. If they are releasing the reference implementations, unlike google, this helps anyone else trying to build the next big web company. The more information the merrier.
Yes, but only because they lag behind Google in this regard. Companies embrace and propose open standards in the areas they don't dominate. As soon as you hit a core competitive advantage, they get as closed as possible.